{"id":315015,"date":"2026-03-05T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:19:09","slug":"house-badly-damaged-in-southland-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315015\/","title":{"rendered":"House badly damaged in Southland fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"3\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mataura_fire_march_5.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Six fire crews were called to the house fire in Riverhead Lane, Mataura. Photo: Gerrit Doppenberg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Six fire crews were called to the house fire in Riverhead Lane, Mataura. Photo: Gerrit Doppenberg<\/p>\n<p>A home was seriously damaged after a fire in Southland overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Six fire crews were called to the fire in Riverhead Lane, Mataura.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesman said they were called to the fire just before 9.15pm and arrived to find the house well ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>He said no one was inside the house at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Crews &#8211;\u00a0three from Mataura and three from Gore &#8211; extinguished the blaze, which was brought under control just after 10.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A crew was on site until around midnight dampening down the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said a fire investigator was in attendance on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six fire crews were called to the house fire in Riverhead Lane, Mataura. Photo: Gerrit Doppenberg A home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-315015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315015","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=315015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}