{"id":343479,"date":"2026-03-23T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343479\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:05:08","slug":"boat-explosion-at-tauranga-marina-injures-1-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343479\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat explosion at Tauranga marina injures 1 person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed they responded to the incident, saying the explosion occurred about 1.35pm and one person suffered moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Bay of Plenty Regional Council senior compliance officer and regional on-scene commander John Morris said they were notified by FENZ on Saturday afternoon that a vessel at the Sulphur Point boat ramp had caught fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">At that point, the fire had been extinguished and the vessel was back on its trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFENZ were advised to move the vessel on to a grassed area and the contaminated water in the boat\u2019s bilge was transferred into containers for disposal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe vessel was subsequently removed from the site. No oil response from Bay of Plenty Regional Council was required as there was no report of a discharge into the harbour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police confirmed they responded to the incident, saying the explosion occurred about 1.35pm and one person suffered moderate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,5532,40737,71,10933,29510,24568,111,43,139,69,4056,5196,1227,1361,4767],"class_list":["post-343479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-boat","tag-explosion","tag-from","tag-injured","tag-injures","tag-marina","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-removed","tag-tauranga","tag-that","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343479","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=343479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}