{"id":313988,"date":"2026-03-05T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:47:08","slug":"vegetation-fire-breaks-out-near-chicken-farm-in-tuakau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313988\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetation fire breaks out near chicken farm in Tuakau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Flames tore through dry grass, sticks and low scrub, sending plumes of white smoke drifting over the rural area, close to the site of Bromley Park Hatcheries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Mikey Taylor, who lives in nearby Patum\u0101hoe, said several crews were involved in fighting the blaze, with engines parked on and below the hillside site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">He said winds drove the smoke towards the nearby township of P\u014dkeno.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Fire and Emergency crews attended the blaze in Tuakau, north Waikato. Photo \/ Mikey Taylor\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Fire and Emergency crews attended the blaze in Tuakau, north Waikato. Photo \/ Mikey Taylor<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed they attended the scene after they were alerted just before 5pm. Taylor said officers were seen redirecting traffic away from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency said it had not issued any smoke danger warnings, despite claims circulating on community Facebook groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Three major fires have also broken out across the Auckland region over the past 24 hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/person-dies-in-otahuhu-sleepout-fire-woman-handcuffed-at-second-auckland-blaze\/MHLXG6RZGBAF3AXJVBVSH4YMWQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/person-dies-in-otahuhu-sleepout-fire-woman-handcuffed-at-second-auckland-blaze\/MHLXG6RZGBAF3AXJVBVSH4YMWQ\/\" target=\"_blank\">including a fatal sleepout blaze in \u014ct\u0101huhu,<\/a> a fire at a central city block and a house fire in Panmure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames tore through dry grass, sticks and low scrub, sending plumes of white smoke drifting over the rural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38501,13912,9451,3233,2079,78,15399,3180,111,43,139,7977,69,3111,2951,170503,23440,1524],"class_list":{"0":"post-313988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-breaks","9":"tag-broken","10":"tag-chicken","11":"tag-farm","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-in","14":"tag-massive","15":"tag-near","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-northern","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-out","22":"tag-town","23":"tag-tuakau","24":"tag-vegetation","25":"tag-waikato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313988","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=313988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}