{"id":467517,"date":"2026-06-08T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467517\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:20:09","slug":"firefighters-contain-large-vegetation-fire-near-waitaki-boys-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467517\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters contain large vegetation fire near Waitaki Boys\u2019 High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The school posted on its social media page that \u201ceveryone is safe\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs you will know, there has been a fire on the school grounds, hedge on Don field. Fire is now under control, and everyone is safe. Huge thanks to the emergency services for their quick response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Smoke billows from a vegetation fire near Waitaki Boys' High School after crews were called just before 9am.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Smoke billows from a vegetation fire near Waitaki Boys&#8217; High School after crews were called just before 9am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">At 10.25am, crews had the fire contained and were in mop-up mode, with firefighters working to extinguish a small remaining spot fire on the northern flank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The school posted on its social media page that \u201ceveryone is safe\u201d. \u201cAs you will know, there has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51971,1558,1848,55141,56884,2079,7572,2959,3242,3180,111,43,139,69,4062,23440,164281],"class_list":["post-467517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-amaru","tag-been","tag-boys","tag-contain","tag-contained","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-high","tag-large","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-school","tag-vegetation","tag-waitaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467517","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=467517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}