{"id":354712,"date":"2026-03-30T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:28:09","slug":"state-highway-3-near-bulls-reopens-after-trailer-carrying-rubbish-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354712\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 3 near Bulls reopens after trailer carrying rubbish catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6345565a-0d43-4f14-9b07-692939be557b.png\" alt=\" Fin  Ocheduszko Brown\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Fire and Emergency crews from Bulls and Marton attended the fire. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">State Highway 3 north of Bulls has reopened after the trailer of a truck carrying rubbish caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police and Fire and Emergency NZ were notified of the fire near Brightwell Rd on SH3 about 1.15pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Fire and Emergency Central shift manager Murray Dunbar said a 12m trailer<br \/>\n         containing rubbish had caught fire.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe truck is not involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Traffic was diverted via SH1 for several hours. Police said about 4pm the highway had reopened but there would be delays for motorists while congestion cleared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,58032,1875,12024,9525,2079,26755,3180,111,43,139,529,69,20593,1854,38019,13672,2983,23857],"class_list":["post-354712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-bulls","tag-carrying","tag-catches","tag-caught","tag-fire","tag-highway","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-reopened","tag-reopens","tag-rubbish","tag-state","tag-trailer","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354712","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=354712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}