{"id":577610,"date":"2026-08-23T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:04:19","slug":"ashburton-silage-fire-extinguished-after-spreading-to-nearby-pine-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577610\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashburton silage fire extinguished after spreading to nearby pine trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FJPH44WT65BRRCCAHK7OTQIFEE.jpg\" alt=\"Malisha Kumar\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/malisha-kumar\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Malisha Kumar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>23 Aug, 2026 01:33 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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 large silage fire which spread to nearby pine trees has now been extinguished in the Ashburton district. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As of 3pm, Fire and Emergency New Zealand said \u201coverhaul has been completed\u201d on the 50 to 60sq m blaze on Acton Rd, Dorie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Fire crews are now scaling down<br \/>\n         their operations.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency received a 111 call at 11.49am today and initially sent one pumping appliance and two water tankers to the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">But on arrival, fire crews found a \u201csilage stack on fire that has spread to the pine edge\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malisha Kumar Multimedia journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 23 Aug, 2026 01:33 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,38265,1558,7557,17750,2079,3242,36661,111,43,139,69,48314,284380,35108,67662,61,10419,5977],"class_list":["post-577610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-ashburton","tag-been","tag-district","tag-extinguished","tag-fire","tag-large","tag-nearby","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pine","tag-silage","tag-spread","tag-spreading","tag-to","tag-trees","tag-which"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577610","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=577610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}