{"id":351810,"date":"2026-03-28T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351810\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:31:09","slug":"two-people-injured-in-a-house-fire-in-burnside-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351810\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people injured in a house fire in Burnside, Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JSHV6I_Fire_and_Emergency_generic_2_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Fire and Emergency\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAbout eight firefighters were still extinguishing the fire, a FENZ spokesperson said (file image).<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Paris Ibell\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been injured in a house fire in Christchurch Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a roof on fire at a property on Wairakei Road shortly before 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>A St John spokesperson says they responded with two ambulances and a rapid response unit.<\/p>\n<p>They treated two patients on the scene &#8211; one in a minor condition, and transported another in a moderate condition to Christchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency South shift manager, Blair Walkin said about eight firefighters were still extinguishing the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed they were assisting emergency services at the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson understood ambulance staff were helping people at the scene.<\/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":"About eight firefighters were still extinguishing the fire, a FENZ spokesperson said (file image). Photo: RNZ \/ Paris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351811,"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-351810","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\/351810","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=351810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}