{"id":452068,"date":"2026-05-30T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452068\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:51:12","slug":"firefighters-working-to-contain-hazardous-substance-at-the-port-of-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452068\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters working to contain hazardous substance at the Port of Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4M2HE1G_image_crop_132230.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nIt is not known what the hazardous substance is, but Fire and Emergency say there is no risk to the public.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency has contained a leak of a hazardous substance at the Port of Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from Auckland City, Grey Lynn, Avondale, Balmoral, Parnell, Mount Roskill and \u014ctara were sent to Fergusson Wharf about 9.20am on Saturday in response to the spill.<\/p>\n<p>A Port of Auckland spokesperson told RNZ that the substance on the ANL Kiwi Trader container ship belonged to a customer.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency provided a solution for cleaning up the spill and left it with Port of Auckland staff about 11.30am.<\/p>\n<p>It is still not confirmed what the hazardous substance was, but Fire and Emergency said there was no risk to the public.<\/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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not known what the hazardous substance is, but Fire and Emergency say there is no risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452069,"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-452068","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\/452068","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=452068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}