{"id":50065,"date":"2025-09-29T12:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50065\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:52:20","slug":"two-injured-after-gas-bottle-explodes-on-work-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50065\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured after gas bottle explodes on work vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4NQXNXQ_copyright_image_159448\" width=\"1050\" height=\"698\" alt=\"Closeup valve of LPG cylinder.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe work vehicle was carrying five gas cylinders when it caught fire. File photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: 123rf\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been taken to hospital after a gas bottle exploded and set fire to a vehicle in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said crews were called to Waterloo Road in Hornby about 9.30am after the work vehicle &#8211; which was carrying five gas cylinders &#8211; caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>St John responded with two ambulances and a rapid response vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two patients were assessed at the scene, with both transported to Christchurch Hospital in a moderate condition,&#8221; St John said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said workers from about five neighbouring businesses were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>The road has since reopened.<\/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":"The work vehicle was carrying five gas cylinders when it caught fire. File photo. Photo: 123rf Two people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50066,"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":{"0":"post-50065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50065","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=50065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}