{"id":340596,"date":"2026-03-21T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340596\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:17:12","slug":"one-injured-after-boat-explosion-at-tauranga-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340596\/","title":{"rendered":"One injured after boat explosion at Tauranga marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4LXYB41_image_crop_136778\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice said they were called to the scene at the marina about 1.35pm.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded to a boat explosion in Tauranga on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the scene at the marina about 1.35pm.<\/p>\n<p>One person suffered moderate injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said it heard from &#8220;another emergency service&#8221; that there was a fire on a boat, but there was only &#8220;a little bit of smoke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>St John confirmed it had sent two ambulances and a manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our crews assessed and treated one patient who was transported in a moderate condition to Tauranga hospital.&#8221;<\/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":"Police said they were called to the scene at the marina about 1.35pm. Photo: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-340596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340596","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=340596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}