{"id":374601,"date":"2026-04-11T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374601\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:46:21","slug":"whangarei-family-terrified-as-falling-power-lines-hit-car-on-albert-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374601\/","title":{"rendered":"Whang\u0101rei family terrified as falling power lines hit car on Albert St"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI looked around and there [were] sparks on the power line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Rauahi said she phoned emergency services and her husband drove the family back home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">She was not sure if the car was damaged: \u201cI haven\u2019t looked on the roof yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Northpower posted on social media that it was  aware of an outage affecting the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">The lines company asked anyone who heard or saw anything before the power went out to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt this stage, please prepare for the power to be off for at least the next 60 minutes while we investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will update when we know more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Jenny Ling is a senior journalist at the Northern Advocate. She has a special interest in covering human interest stories, along with finance, roading, and social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI looked around and there [were] sparks on the power line.\u201d Rauahi said she phoned emergency services and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10049,806,3944,38403,2109,13989,3594,22511,111,43,139,69,90,10112,2838,11420,97,36653,165,9863,3608,1869,1316,30859],"class_list":{"0":"post-374601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-albert","9":"tag-as","10":"tag-car","11":"tag-falling","12":"tag-family","13":"tag-fell","14":"tag-hit","15":"tag-lines","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-on","21":"tag-power","22":"tag-routine","23":"tag-st","24":"tag-supermarket","25":"tag-terrified","26":"tag-their","27":"tag-visit","28":"tag-were","29":"tag-whangrei","30":"tag-when","31":"tag-whnau"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374601","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=374601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}