{"id":575879,"date":"2026-08-21T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:04:09","slug":"mt-roskill-house-fire-two-storey-home-collapses-as-crews-battle-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575879\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Roskill house fire: Two-storey home collapses as crews battle blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Crews from Mt Roskill, Onehunga, Balmoral, Ellerslie, Avondale and Auckland City stations were at the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got a total of four fire trucks, two ladder trucks, one command unit and one support vehicle attending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">People on social media reported Parau St had been closed, with a heavy Fire and Emergency and police presence in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Lewis said Fire and Emergency was \u201cstill working to extinguish the fire and protect nearby exposures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cExposures\u201d is the term Fire and Emergency uses for nearby property or vegetation at risk from a fire, including trees, fences and other houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews from Mt Roskill, Onehunga, Balmoral, Ellerslie, Avondale and Auckland City stations were at the fire. \u201cWe\u2019ve got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,806,51,5837,4996,13633,42503,42501,23364,2079,1345,10053,10048,111,43,139,69,59023,5911,15486],"class_list":["post-575879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-battle","tag-blaze","tag-catching","tag-collapsed","tag-collapses","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-home","tag-house","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-roskill","tag-tonight","tag-twostorey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575879","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=575879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}