{"id":446735,"date":"2026-05-26T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446735\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:19:09","slug":"hydrochloric-acid-spill-closes-south-waikato-road-after-tanker-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446735\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrochloric acid spill closes South Waikato road after tanker crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">Fire crews from Tokoroa and Rotorua attended  with a support unit from Put\u0101ruru. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">They were unsure of the concentration of hydrochloric acid but were treating it as highly concentrated and taking \u201cappropriate precautions\u201d, Pennefather said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">They were also getting additional advice from the Queensland Fire and Rescue scientific branch in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">Just after 6am firefighters were still monitoring the site and planning for the recovery of the truck \u201csometime this morning\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews from Tokoroa and Rotorua attended with a support unit from Put\u0101ruru. They were unsure of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46871,10472,74,1875,5201,18509,30609,3549,227797,685,65989,111,43,139,2551,69,10715,1314,25261,1240,48216,108678,1524],"class_list":["post-446735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-46871","tag-acid","tag-after","tag-carrying","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-corner","tag-crash","tag-hydrochloric","tag-last","tag-litres","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-remains","tag-road","tag-rolled","tag-south","tag-spill","tag-tanker","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446735","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=446735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}