{"id":325380,"date":"2026-03-12T05:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/325380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:13:07","slug":"high-risk-explosive-substance-found-in-burnside-christchurch-residents-told-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/325380\/","title":{"rendered":"High-risk explosive substance found in Burnside, Christchurch; residents told to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCordons will be removed once the area is safe,\u201d Ellison said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Burnside residents have been told to evacuate after a &quot;high-risk explosive&quot; was found. Photo \/ Supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Burnside residents have been told to evacuate after a &#8220;high-risk explosive&#8221; was found. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Burnside residents received an emergency alert advising them to \u201cimmediately evacuate\u201d around Sheffield Cres because of a \u201chigh-risk explosive substance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">A reporter on the scene said a fire appliance and a police chemical van were at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCordons will be removed once the area is safe,\u201d Ellison said. Burnside residents have been told to evacuate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,665,1558,160689,4487,36662,36876,1874,305,2251,78,111,43,139,69,530,1314,66989,17294,61,6859],"class_list":["post-325380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-around","tag-been","tag-burnside","tag-christchurch","tag-evacuate","tag-explosive","tag-found","tag-have","tag-highrisk","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-residents","tag-road","tag-substance","tag-suburb","tag-to","tag-told"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325380","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=325380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}