{"id":429106,"date":"2026-05-15T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:57:12","slug":"sunlive-car-fire-on-sh2-near-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429106\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Car fire on SH2 near Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thick cloud of black smoke has been seen billowing from State Highway 2 near Bethlehem this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand northern fire communications shift manager Garreth Lewis said they received multiple calls at 3pm to a car on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe responded with one fire truck, and on arrival, the car was well involved in fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis said crews are still working on the scene to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter at the scene said a car had gone over the bank and was \u201cfully immersed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said traffic was building along the highway, and one fire brigade and multiple police were on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported near Mayfield Lane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/150526Bethlehemfire01.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said police were notified of a possibly abandoned car on fire on Mayfield Lane around 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing further required from police.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A thick cloud of black smoke has been seen billowing from State Highway 2 near Bethlehem this afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-429106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/429106","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=429106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}