{"id":467597,"date":"2026-06-09T00:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467597\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:34:18","slug":"vegetation-fire-near-waitaki-boys-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467597\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetation fire near Waitaki Boys&#8217; contained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large vegetation fire near Waitaki Boys&#8217; High School has been contained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesperson said they responded to a call just before 9am.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"5\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_8232.jpeg\" width=\"5702\" height=\"2690\" alt=\"Fire rages in the treeline near sports fields at Waitaki Boys' High School this morning. Photo:...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fire rages in the treeline near sports fields at Waitaki Boys&#8217; High School this morning. Photo: Nic Duff <\/p>\n<p>One structure was under threat from the blaze, the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"3\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/waitaki_evac.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Smoke rises over Waitaki Boys' High School from a nearby vegetation fire this morning. Photo:...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Smoke rises over Waitaki Boys&#8217; High School from a nearby vegetation fire this morning. Photo: Supplied <\/p>\n<p>A parent told the Otago Daily Times that some students were evacuated from the school.<\/p>\n<p>Four fire trucks were on the scene with all firefighters wearing breathing apparatus and another four were deployed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-855669510462105.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Flames leap into the sky as fire ripped through a band of trees near Waitaki Boys' School this...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flames leap into the sky as fire ripped through a band of trees near Waitaki Boys&#8217; School this morning. Photo: Kim Allan \/ Supplied <\/p>\n<p>The fire was burning in approximately 200m of trees along the end of the school&#8217;s Don Field.<\/p>\n<p>Waitaki Boys&#8217; High School posted a statement to Facebook thanking emergency services for their work containing the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large vegetation fire near Waitaki Boys&#8217; High School has been contained.\u00a0 A Fire and Emergency New Zealand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-467597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467597","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=467597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}