{"id":409652,"date":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409652\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:17:09","slug":"masterton-river-search-police-respond-to-call-for-help-near-dixon-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409652\/","title":{"rendered":"Masterton river search: Police respond to call for help near Dixon St"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>3 May, 2026 08:47 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Search and Rescue teams have been called to Masterton after someone called for help from a river. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are searching for a person after a call for help was heard near a Wairarapa river tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services are at Dixon St in Masterton, near the skate park, after reports of a person calling for assistance about 7.30pm, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Search and Rescue teams are on their way<br \/>\n         to the area.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone who was in the Dixon St area around that time and heard signs of a person in distress, or has information that could help police, are urged to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 3 May, 2026 08:47 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3043,84394,2082,27501,5838,89421,3180,111,43,139,69,4056,675,4491,6739,1870,11929,11420,61,5911,62],"class_list":["post-409652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-call","tag-dixon","tag-for","tag-heard","tag-help","tag-masterton","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-respond","tag-river","tag-search","tag-searching","tag-st","tag-to","tag-tonight","tag-wairarapa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409652","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=409652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}