{"id":459631,"date":"2026-06-03T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459631\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:38:11","slug":"people-accounted-for-after-fire-tears-through-house-in-bay-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459631\/","title":{"rendered":"People accounted for after fire tears through house in Bay of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4JNKJZ3_fire_map_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"508\" alt=\"fire map in \u014cp\u014dtiki\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed everybody is accounted for following a house fire in Waihau Bay in Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n<p>However, emergency services remain at the scene on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the public was being asked to avoid the area after the blaze, which started about 3am.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said people were unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>Northern shift manager Garreth Lewis said, &#8220;When we arrived, the house was well involved in fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the home on Wi Tupaea Road was &#8220;significantly damaged&#8221; and four crews were sent.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they were notified at about 4am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is unclear whether the address was occupied at the time of the fire, and work is underway to locate known occupants of the address.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police have since given the all-clear on any possible occupants.<\/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":"Photo: Google Maps Police have confirmed everybody is accounted for following a house fire in Waihau Bay in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459632,"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-459631","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\/459631","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=459631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}