{"id":578476,"date":"2026-08-24T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578476\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T04:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:44:10","slug":"hurunui-wildfire-helicopters-and-crews-battle-canterbury-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578476\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurunui wildfire: Helicopters and crews battle Canterbury blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson said they were aware of the incident but were not required. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Three helicopters and firefighters from six brigades are tackling the blaze, with the terrain too rough for ground operations.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Three helicopters and firefighters from six brigades are tackling the blaze, with the terrain too rough for ground operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Hurunui Mayor Marie Black told the Herald it appeared to be a large grass fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">She was not aware of housing or buildings at risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOf course it\u2019s concerning to the community to manage these crises,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Given it had been relatively dry, the community had been careful about the fire risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is something we will continue to be mindful of as we head into the summer months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police spokesperson said they were aware of the incident but were not required. Three helicopters and firefighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,5837,4996,8126,23364,2079,27513,129513,111,43,139,69,2889,87115],"class_list":["post-578476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-battle","tag-blaze","tag-canterbury","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-helicopters","tag-hurunui","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tackling","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578476","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=578476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}