{"id":437583,"date":"2026-05-21T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437583\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:31:10","slug":"firefighters-put-out-large-house-fire-in-south-aucklands-rosehill-investigation-into-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437583\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters put out large house fire in South Auckland\u2019s Rosehill, investigation into cause"},"content":{"rendered":"
One person told the Herald their mother, who lived nearby, heard \u201cbig explosions\u201d, reporting that the fire was \u201cvery big\u201d and there were \u201cheaps of fire trucks and police present\u201d. <\/p>\n
Onlookers watched as smoke billowed into the sky.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency earlier told the Herald they responded to reports of a well-involved house fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have four appliances currently on scene. The house and garage were well-involved on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of the blaze.<\/p>\n
Another witness said multiple fire trucks and police cars with their sirens on had headed to the fire on Jupiter St.<\/p>\n
One person said multiple fire trucks were headed to Jupiter St across from Rosehill Intermediate School.<\/p>\n
Another said pupils were being kept inside, away from the drifting smoke.<\/p>\n
The school confirmed to the Herald it remained open but did not want to comment further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person told the Herald their mother, who lived nearby, heard \u201cbig explosions\u201d, reporting that the fire was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,51,3952,223775,7022,25346,2079,7572,305,10053,78,296,12898,3242,1304,111,43,139,69,3111,85344,9214,32785,13743,3948,1240,17294,1361,1961],"class_list":["post-437583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-billowing","tag-black","tag-cause","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-have","tag-house","tag-in","tag-into","tag-investigation","tag-large","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-plumes","tag-put","tag-rosehill","tag-sent","tag-smoke","tag-south","tag-suburb","tag-that","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437583","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=437583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}