{"id":399427,"date":"2026-04-27T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:40:08","slug":"east-coast-farm-house-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399427\/","title":{"rendered":"East Coast farm house destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The couple living there lit a fire in an open fireplace, then went out for a walk, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen they returned, the house was on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency assistant district commander Trudi Hicklin said the fire crews were able to protect nearby structures and surrounding bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut they were unable to stop the fire from destroying the house. The people living there have lost everything inside the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">A specialist fire investigator went to the property on Monday to confirm the cause and origin of the fire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple living there lit a fire in an open fireplace, then went out for a walk, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3595,11586,14167,7557,3806,3233,2079,71,12506,10053,12620,111,43,139,2551,69,814,10809,13115],"class_list":["post-399427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-by","tag-coast","tag-destroyed","tag-district","tag-east","tag-farm","tag-fire","tag-from","tag-gisborne","tag-house","tag-inland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-property","tag-sunday","tag-tolaga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399427","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=399427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}