{"id":358411,"date":"2026-04-01T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358411\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:23:12","slug":"car-engulfed-in-flames-in-auckland-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358411\/","title":{"rendered":"Car engulfed in flames in Auckland CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A car has caught fire in Auckland&#8217;s Britomart this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Footage sent to 1News shows the car fully engulfed in flames on Quay St.<\/p>\n<p>Dark smoke could be seen filling the area near Britomart Station, as crews from Fire and Emergency New Zealand were seen hosing the vehicle down.<\/p>\n<p>Police were in the area stopping people walking from getting close.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/smoke-in-the-area-near-britomart-station-HC3JC2OOQFFTBM34FSZFXDESVY.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke in the area near Britomart Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Smoke in the area near Britomart Station. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson confirmed the vehicle was near the harbour end of Albert St, and the fire was &#8220;almost out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson confirmed a rapid response vehicle was sent to the scene at about 6.22pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were no patients,&#8221; the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car has caught fire in Auckland&#8217;s Britomart this evening. Footage sent to 1News shows the car fully&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-358411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358411","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=358411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}