{"id":340352,"date":"2026-03-21T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:41:08","slug":"waiheke-island-blaze-firefighters-contain-omiha-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340352\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiheke Island blaze: Firefighters contain \u014cmiha house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLooks gnarly,\u201d another said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said three fire trucks and a water tanker are currently in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Crews remain at the scene and are working to make sure the fire does not spread to neighbouring homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said the fire is yet to be extinguished, but it remains under control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency NZ received no reports of injury, and no one was at home at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Images of the scene showed thick black smoke rising above the beachside community, which is densely covered in trees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Other photos were taken from boats near the coastline. <\/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":"\u201cLooks gnarly,\u201d another said. A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said three fire trucks and a water tanker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,1558,7022,4996,55141,86829,2079,7572,34981,1345,10053,2514,181914,111,43,139,69,3948,29451,25019,70252,376,102],"class_list":["post-340352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-been","tag-black","tag-blaze","tag-contain","tag-engulfed","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-flames","tag-home","tag-house","tag-island","tag-miha","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-smoke","tag-thick","tag-visible","tag-waiheke","tag-water","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340352","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=340352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}