{"id":304293,"date":"2026-02-27T04:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304293\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:19:08","slug":"st-john-fenz-rush-to-ashburton-school-amid-unknown-chemical-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304293\/","title":{"rendered":"St John, FENZ rush to Ashburton school amid &#8216;unknown chemical&#8217; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Fire and Emergency NZ says crews encountered an &#8220;unknown chemical&#8221; upon arrival at a school in Ashburton this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to St Joseph&#8217;s School just before 10am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">FENZ said it sent two crews from Ashburton and a HAZMAT crew from Timaru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Crews encountered an unknown chemical on arrival and are working with ambulance to make the scene safe,&#8221; a FENZ spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">St John said it had sent an operations manager and ambulances to the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Two patients in a minor condition were taken to Ashburton Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The school has been approached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency NZ says crews encountered an &#8220;unknown chemical&#8221; upon arrival at a school in Ashburton this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,84,42,134,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-304293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-christchurch-canterbury","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}