{"id":500593,"date":"2026-06-29T05:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500593\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:25:19","slug":"truck-fire-shuts-sh25a-near-thames-as-crews-battle-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500593\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck fire shuts SH25A near Thames as crews battle blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">On arrival, crews reported the blaze was \u201cfully involved\u201d in the cab of the truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency said the vehicle that was impacted was a truck and trailer, which was fully loaded with wood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">At this stage, the blaze is contained, and three crews and two tankers are on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The responding crews are from Puriri and Thames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">No injuries have been reported and the driver was out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"On arrival, crews reported the blaze was &quot;fully involved&quot; in the cab of the truck.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>On arrival, crews reported the blaze was &#8220;fully involved&#8221; in the cab of the truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Photos from the incident showed the large truck completely gutted by the blaze as smoke continued to rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they have been notified of a truck on fire on SH25A, but were yet to be on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">More to come &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On arrival, crews reported the blaze was \u201cfully involved\u201d in the cab of the truck. Fire and Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,43036,5837,223775,7022,4996,5822,23364,15974,2079,34981,71,3180,111,43,139,69,49042,7812,1321,250019,57343,3948,153086,29451,23857],"class_list":["post-500593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-attendance","tag-battle","tag-billowing","tag-black","tag-blaze","tag-bright","tag-crews","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-flames","tag-from","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-orange","tag-seen","tag-services","tag-sh25a","tag-shuts","tag-smoke","tag-thames","tag-thick","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500593","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=500593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}