{"id":556945,"date":"2026-08-03T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556945\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:11:10","slug":"determined-to-get-answers-man-dies-after-incident-in-bay-of-plenty-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556945\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Determined to get answers&#8217;: Man dies after incident in Bay of Plenty forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A man who was found critically injured following an incident in a Bay of Plenty forest has died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to Rotoehu Forest, northeast of Rotorua, at around 10.15pm on July 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Harry Burlace, 24, was found in a critical condition, and on Monday, police announced he had died from his injuries in Rotorua Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said police&#8217;s thought were with Burlace&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;\u201cWe are continuing to piece together the events that lead to Harry being critically injured, and continue to make a number of enquiries as to what happened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cWe are determined to get answers for his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including another earthquake wakes thousands, a Kiwi runner sets an ultramarathon record, and the lucky escape for a New York scooter rider. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was found critically injured following an incident in a Bay of Plenty forest has died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-556945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556945","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=556945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}