{"id":339038,"date":"2026-03-20T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339038\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:21:12","slug":"christchurch-house-fire-in-aranui-seriously-injures-two-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339038\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch house fire in Aranui seriously injures two people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">One person said their daughter thought there was an earthquake after the explosion hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m around the corner, and it shook my house a bit,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMy whole pl shook so hard I thought it was a quake,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said they attended the fire in Aranui. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Four vehicles attended, and two patients in a serious condition were treated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Both people were transported to Christchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency NZ told the Herald they received initial calls that people were trapped inside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The people were able to safely self-evacuate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency said three fire trucks attended and the blaze was extinguished at 8.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" 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\" 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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":"One person said their daughter thought there was an earthquake after the explosion hit. \u201cI\u2019m around the corner,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,181192,1558,4487,86829,2079,34981,305,1345,10053,78,10933,29510,111,43,139,69,384,23419,17294,1237],"class_list":["post-339038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aranui","tag-been","tag-christchurch","tag-engulfed","tag-fire","tag-flames","tag-have","tag-home","tag-house","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-injures","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-seriously","tag-suburb","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339038","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=339038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}