{"id":583984,"date":"2026-08-29T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583984\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:08:10","slug":"person-missing-in-henderson-house-fire-as-35-firefighters-search-destroyed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583984\/","title":{"rendered":"Person missing in Henderson house fire as 35 firefighters search destroyed home"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incident was escalated to a second alarm response as firefighters battled the blaze and carried out a search and rescue operation for the missing person.<\/p>\n

Crews will likely remain at the scene for the rest of the night, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\"FirefightersFirefighters are being decontaminated following a house fire tonight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward.<\/p>\n

Assistant Area Commander Katie Pocock told the Herald at the scene that Fire and Emergency New Zealand was alerted to a house fire on Forest Hill Road in Henderson<\/a> at approximately 8:37pm tonight.<\/p>\n

On arrival, crews were confronted with a well-involved property fire and were advised that a person was reportedly inside.<\/p>\n

The incident has been escalated to a second alarm, with eight fire trucks currently in attendance. <\/p>\n

Firefighters are continuing operations at the scene, with more information to be provided as it becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident was escalated to a second alarm response as firefighters battled the blaze and carried out a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64869,74,806,14167,15974,86829,2079,7572,47836,1345,10053,78,661,6501,111,43,139,2551,69,4056,42371,5034,1534,1870,24177],"class_list":["post-583984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-64869","tag-after","tag-as","tag-destroyed","tag-emergency","tag-engulfed","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-henderson","tag-home","tag-house","tag-in","tag-major","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-prompting","tag-response","tag-saturday","tag-search","tag-unaccounted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583984","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=583984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}