A person has been airlifted to hospital in a serious condition as fire crews work to contain a blaze at a building in Timaru. <\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the building fire on High St in Parkside just before 9am. <\/p>\n
Ten fire trucks \u2013 four from Timaru, three from St Andrews, two from Temuka and one from Washdyke \u2013 were called to the blaze. <\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said one ambulance, one rapid response unit, one operations manager, and one helicopter were at the scene.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said crews treated one person in a “serious condition”, who was airlifted to Christchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n
Residents nearby described hearing “drums exploding” as smoke rose into the air. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
At around 9.50am, the building was still “well ablaze”, and crews were working to contain it. <\/p>\n
The building measured 30 by 40 metres. <\/p>\n
Footage from the scene showed part of the property engulfed in flames, with black smoke rising into the air. <\/p>\n
Nearby residents described hearing “drums exploding”. <\/p>\n
Road closures were in place, and the public was asked to avoid the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been airlifted to hospital in a serious condition as fire crews work to contain a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-402506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/402506","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=402506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}