{"id":433854,"date":"2026-05-18T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433854\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:59:09","slug":"police-investigate-boat-fire-in-aucklands-waitemata-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433854\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate boat fire in Auckland\u2019s Waitemat\u0101 Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Residents in Beach Haven, Hobsonville and Greenhithe reported on social media they were woken by loud explosions from the boat, which was reportedly on a mooring near the Beach Haven wharf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">A strong smell of smoke wafted over the coastal suburbs as the fire engulfed the ship.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Firefighters aboard the police launch Deodar docked at Beach Haven wharf after battling a boat fire between Beach Haven and Hobsonville Point overnight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Firefighters aboard the police launch Deodar docked at Beach Haven wharf after battling a boat fire between Beach Haven and Hobsonville Point overnight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services were called around 12.50am to multiple reports of a boat on fire, Fire and Emergency northern shift manager Lauren Sika said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The fire crew responded with police on the water, Sika said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAll persons were accounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Firefighters aboard the police launch Deodar have battled a boat fire in the channel between Beach Haven and Hobsonville Point overnight.   Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Firefighters aboard the police launch Deodar have battled a boat fire in the channel between Beach Haven and Hobsonville Point overnight.   Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The crew worked to extinguish the fire with a low-pressure delivery system and a portable pump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Sika could not comment on why the fire was logged as a \u201chazardous substance\u201d call on Fire and Emergency\u2019s incident reports page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Beach Haven, Hobsonville and Greenhithe reported on social media they were woken by loud explosions from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,3952,59385,1558,5532,9525,86829,2079,34981,20589,35698,78,676,12898,1743,5165,111,43,139,69,6507,675,530,35146,114941,25535,102],"class_list":["post-433854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-bangs","tag-been","tag-boat","tag-caught","tag-engulfed","tag-fire","tag-flames","tag-harbour","tag-hearing","tag-in","tag-investigate","tag-investigation","tag-launched","tag-loud","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-residents","tag-vessel","tag-waitemat","tag-waters","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433854","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=433854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}