{"id":329691,"date":"2026-03-14T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/329691\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:57:09","slug":"plumes-of-black-smoke-cars-on-fire-at-ngongotaha-wrecking-yard-near-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/329691\/","title":{"rendered":"Plumes of black smoke, cars on fire at Ngongotah\u0101 wrecking yard near Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>14 Mar, 2026 05:43 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 class=\"\">Firefighters from multiple brigades have contained a fire at a car wrecker\u2019s yard in Ngongotah\u0101 near Rotorua. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand said people in the area should stay away and remain inside, away from the thick smoke. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cStay inside, close doors and windows and turn off air<br \/>\n         conditioning.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Fire and large plumes of black smoke at the car wreckers yard in Ngongotah\u0101. Photo \/ Supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Fire and large plumes of black smoke at the car wreckers yard in Ngongotah\u0101. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Video taken earlier this evening shows the blaze producing large plumes of black smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 14 Mar, 2026 05:43 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,7022,177215,6799,56884,2079,7572,71,305,2510,3180,111,43,139,175946,69,1118,90,85344,1327,3948,177216,4992,28212],"class_list":["post-329691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-black","tag-brigades","tag-cars","tag-contained","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-from","tag-have","tag-multiple","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-ngongotah","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-plumes","tag-rotorua","tag-smoke","tag-wreckers","tag-wrecking","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329691","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=329691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}