{"id":577892,"date":"2026-08-23T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577892\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:20:09","slug":"investigators-say-large-invercargill-vegetation-fire-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577892\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators say large Invercargill vegetation fire \u2018suspicious\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 600 metre long scrub fire that broke out on an Invercargill beach this morning has been deemed suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the blaze at Oreti Beach about 3am.<\/p>\n<p>A Fenz spokesman said the fire was spreading through gorse and was about 600m long.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions were windy and the response was upgraded to a second alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Six pump fire trucks were on the scene, along with two water tank trucks and other support vehicles, who extinguished the fire and left the scene by 9am.<\/p>\n<p>A fire investigator had visited the scene and the fire was deemed suspicious, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 600 metre long scrub fire that broke out on an Invercargill beach this morning has been deemed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-577892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577892","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=577892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}