Buildings and a campground in Kaiteriteri were evacuated this morning as firefighters responded to a large gas leak near the beachfront of the popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency New Zealand said it was alerted to the leak shortly before 7am. Its source was identified as a restaurant at the Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve.<\/p>\n
In an update just before 12pm, FENZ said it was scaling back its response. <\/p>\n
Roads were reopened, and people who had been evacuated earlier in the day were able to return to their properties.<\/p>\n
Assistant District Commander Chris Best said one crew would remain at the scene to ensure gas is completely dispersed.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re expected to leave later this morning,” he said. <\/p>\n
“I would like to thank the public for their cooperation and crews for working hard to ensure the area is safe.”<\/p>\n
Earlier, the local Kaiteriteri Reserve said some of its buildings and campground were evacuated as a precaution. <\/p>\n
It said the road was now open and, surrounding businesses were “operating as normal”. <\/p>\n
“The Waterfront Restaurant remains closed at this time, as they identify the cause of the leak. We will update this post when its open again.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buildings and a campground in Kaiteriteri were evacuated this morning as firefighters responded to a large gas leak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,91,111,43,139,69,2224],"class_list":{"0":"post-383651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-nelson","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-tasman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383651","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=383651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}