{"id":431983,"date":"2026-05-17T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:21:29","slug":"person-trapped-on-coastal-rocks-now-safe-police-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431983\/","title":{"rendered":"Person trapped on coastal rocks now safe, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4MKGBCG_image_crop_112252.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"A police Eagle helicopter over the scene in Massey, Auckland.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe person was spotted on the rocks by the Police Eagle team (file photo).<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Simon Rogers\n<\/p>\n<p>A person trapped on rocks at \u014cmaha, north of Auckland, has managed to make their way to back to shore, police say.<\/p>\n<p>A police boat was sent to rescue the person on Saturday evening, after a report they were stuck after the tide came in around 6:30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Eagle Helicopter crew then found the person on Karamuroa Point, south of \u014cmaha, a police spokesperson said, and the police boat was being sent to the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Police later said the trapped person had managed to return to shore once the tide had receded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The person was spotted on the rocks by the Police Eagle team (file photo). Photo: RNZ \/ Simon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-431983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431983","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=431983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}