{"id":336888,"date":"2026-03-19T05:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/336888\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:15:17","slug":"crews-attack-fire-near-petrol-station-in-aucklands-ponsonby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/336888\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews attack fire near petrol station in Auckland’s Ponsonby"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fire near a petrol station in Auckland’s Ponsonby has been contained “but not fully extinguished”, according to Fire and Emergency New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Earlier, black smoke could be seen rising high into the city sky from near Z Ponsonby on Williamson Ave.<\/p>\n

The fire appeared to be centred in a workshop directly adjacent to the petrol station.<\/p>\n

\"Smoke<\/p>\n

Smoke can be seen from a fire behind a Z petrol station in Ponsonby. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

FENZ said it was alerted to the incident by multiple 111 calls at 1.50pm.<\/p>\n

Eight fire trucks attended, including two with standard ladders and one with a heavy or long-reach ladder.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/p>\n

Black smoke over central Auckland. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Fire fought from within the building<\/p>\n

FENZ said crews arrived within six minutes of the 111 call, where crews then tackled the fire from inside the building.<\/p>\n

“Due to these tactics, the fire was contained within 30 minutes.”<\/p>\n

A foam tender was also sent as the fire was inside an automotive shop.<\/p>\n

Crews attended from across Auckland and a fire investigator were on scene.<\/p>\n

No one was inside the building when emergency crews arrived and there were no reported injuries, FENZ added.<\/p>\n

\"Crews<\/p>\n

Crews attending a fire in Auckland’s Ponsonby. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Earlier, one witness said: “I don\u2019t know what\u2019s in that fire but it\u2019s pretty spectacular from Ponsonby Rd. I hope nobody is injured.”<\/p>\n

The immense tower of black smoke could be seen from across Auckland.<\/p>\n

Do you know more? Email us at news@tvnz.co.nz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire near a petrol station in Auckland’s Ponsonby has been contained “but not fully extinguished”, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-336888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336888","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=336888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}