{"id":333869,"date":"2026-03-17T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333869\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:35:10","slug":"fire-crews-battle-building-blaze-in-palmerston-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333869\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews battle building blaze in Palmerston North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JRLVG9_PALM_FIRE_JFK_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Eight fire trucks are working to extinguish a building fire in Palmerston North.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Facebook \/ Palmerston North Fire Brigade\n<\/p>\n<p>Eight fire trucks are working to extinguish a building fire in Palmerston North.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said crews from across the city were called to John F Kennedy Drive about 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said the building was well ablaze on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Police said no injuries were reported and no road closures were required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Facebook \/ Palmerston North Fire Brigade Eight fire trucks are working to extinguish a building fire in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-333869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333869","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=333869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}