{"id":311194,"date":"2026-03-03T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:29:10","slug":"water-incident-at-papatowai-southland-2-rescue-helicopters-called-2-people-flown-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311194\/","title":{"rendered":"Water incident at Papatowai, Southland: 2 rescue helicopters called, 2 people flown to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>3 Mar, 2026 05:36 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Takakopa Bay, as seen from Papatowai. Photo \/ Jill Worrall<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people were injured following a water incident in the South Island town of Papatowai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hato Hone St John said one ambulance, one first response unit, an operations manager and two helicopters were sent to the incident at 3.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Two patients, one in a serious condition and one in a<br \/>\n         moderate condition, were transported to the hospital by helicopter.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Acting Senior Sergeant Nathan White said emergency services received reports about 3.15pm of four people struggling in the water near the Tahakopa River outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 3 Mar, 2026 05:36 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,1559,75102,5504,27513,2241,671,10933,2514,111,43,139,69,169409,384,8527,1240,15488,61,2951,376,3608],"class_list":{"0":"post-311194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-called","10":"tag-flown","11":"tag-following","12":"tag-helicopters","13":"tag-hospital","14":"tag-incident","15":"tag-injured","16":"tag-island","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-papatowai","22":"tag-people","23":"tag-rescue","24":"tag-south","25":"tag-southland","26":"tag-to","27":"tag-town","28":"tag-water","29":"tag-were"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311194","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=311194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}