{"id":578717,"date":"2026-08-24T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:48:09","slug":"fire-crews-three-helicopters-battle-vegetation-fire-in-hurunui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578717\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews, three helicopters battle vegetation fire in Hurunui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three helicopters are helping fire crews tackle a vegetation fire spanning more than 100 hectares in Hurunui this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency NZ said they were alerted to the blaze on Karaka Rd around 12.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>Six fire crews were working to contain the fire &#8220;although the terrain is currently too difficult to cover by foot&#8221;, Fire and Emergency said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are currently no dwellings at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three helicopters are helping fire crews tackle a vegetation fire spanning more than 100 hectares in Hurunui this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-578717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/578717","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=578717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}