{"id":512457,"date":"2026-07-06T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/512457\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:50:11","slug":"tauranga-house-engulfed-in-flames-on-carmichael-rd-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/512457\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga house engulfed in flames on Carmichael Rd in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThey went to get one bucket to douse it out and, by the time they looked around for a second bucket, the wall had already inflamed too much for them to do anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole house went up in 15 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family escaped safely, she said.<\/p>\n
Relatives arrived within five to 10 minutes and raced to salvage what little they could before the house became fully engulfed. <\/p>\n
She said the fire destroyed most of their belongings and left little of the house standing.<\/p>\n
Brown said the family was still in shock and feared their missing pets had not survived.<\/p>\n
Brown said the fire appeared to have started on an exterior wall, although the cause was yet to be determined.<\/p>\n
A witness, who would not be named, said they followed a \u201cbig\u201d trail of smoke to the property about 3pm.<\/p>\n
They arrived to find a house with the roof collapsed, flames \u201cgoing up\u201d from the house and people \u201cspraying hoses over the fence\u201d at the front of the property.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere [were] pops, crackles and bangs from the house, and you could feel the heat from across the road,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
A witness followed a \u201cbig\u201d trail of smoke to find a house fire on Tauranga\u2019s Carmichael Rd. Photo \/ Zoe Blake<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency NZ northern fire communications shift manager Josh Pennefather said three crews from Tauranga and Greerton stations rushed to the scene after receiving calls about 3.20pm.<\/p>\n
The 12 firefighters arrived to find a 20m by 10m blaze in a single-storey residential dwelling. <\/p>\n
Pennefather said everyone in the home was accounted for and there were no injuries. <\/p>\n
About 6pm, he said the fire was out and one truck was still at the scene monitoring hot spots.<\/p>\n
A fire investigator was also there and working to determine the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey went to get one bucket to douse it out and, by the time they looked around for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22374,254903,86829,34981,10053,78,111,43,139,69,90,2642,1227],"class_list":["post-512457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bethlehem","tag-carmichael","tag-engulfed","tag-flames","tag-house","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-rd","tag-tauranga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512457","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=512457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}