{"id":553805,"date":"2026-07-31T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553805\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:20:10","slug":"police-investigate-after-man-found-critically-injured-in-rotoehu-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553805\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate after man found critically injured in Rotoehu Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>31 Jul, 2026 09:11 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man has been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition following an incident in Pongakawa overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were called to Rotoehu Forest in Bay of Plenty about 10.15pm, where the man was found critically injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Hato Hone St John said it was notified of an incident in<br \/>\n         Pongakawa at 10.11pm and responded with two ambulances, two rapid response units, two managers and a helicopter.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Crews assessed and treated one patient, who was airlifted to Rotorua Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said inquiries were underway to determine what had occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 31 Jul, 2026 09:11 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,11727,1558,1239,11728,12939,5504,3247,1874,42,2241,78,671,10933,676,5158,43,6507,675,6648,272007,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-553805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-airlifted","tag-been","tag-condition","tag-critical","tag-critically","tag-following","tag-forest","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-injured","tag-investigate","tag-man","tag-news","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-pongakawa","tag-rotoehu","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553805","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=553805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}