{"id":494591,"date":"2026-06-25T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:48:10","slug":"smoke-billows-from-auckland-cbd-bar-as-crews-tackle-fort-st-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494591\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke billows from Auckland CBD bar as crews tackle Fort St fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
The spokesperson said the building\u2019s sprinkler system appears to have done a \u201cgood job\u201d containing the fire.<\/p>\n
A local shop owner told the Herald about 40 to 50 people had gathered outside the building as smoke was visibly rising from the rooftop.<\/p>\n
A worker at a sports bar below the site of the fire says the building has been flooded with water as firefighters battle the blaze. Photo \/ Corey Fleming<\/p>\n
A worker from The Right Track Sports Cafe, which is below Mr Murdoch\u2019s, said the bar has been completely flooded. <\/p>\n
The staff member knew of the water coming down before they were aware of a fire and wasn\u2019t sure if anyone was in the venue above. <\/p>\n
The sports bar is not expected to reopen this evening, with staff facing a lengthy clean-up operation.<\/p>\n
Several punters told the Herald they suspect they will not be able to return to finish their drinks this evening.<\/p>\n
One bargoer said they had been enjoying a quiet beverage outside when the incident unfolded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were sitting outside having a wonderful time, reading a lovely letter that I got from my colleagues, it was a great moment,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThen the smoke started. It ruined everything; we even lost a cider.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spokesperson said the building\u2019s sprinkler system appears to have done a \u201cgood job\u201d containing the fire. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,51,17181,1558,3949,4996,674,31426,23364,2079,7572,180857,71,42,43,10903,60084,4491,37400,7812,3948,11420,40865,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-494591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-bar","tag-been","tag-billows","tag-blaze","tag-building","tag-cbd","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-fort","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-pouring","tag-respond","tag-rooftop","tag-seen","tag-smoke","tag-st","tag-tackle","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494591","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=494591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}