{"id":586329,"date":"2026-08-31T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:14:10","slug":"crews-extinguish-two-vegetation-fires-in-central-hawkes-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586329\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews extinguish two vegetation fires in central Hawke&#8217;s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire crews have extinguished two large vegetation fires which broke out central Hawke&#8217;s Bay earlier today. <\/p>\n<p>Crews were alerted to a blaze in tree stumps and slash on Swamp Rd, Ongaonga at around 9.25am on Monday.  <\/p>\n<p>Nine trucks, four tankers and three specialist support vehicles from Ongaonga, Waipukurau, Tikokino, Tamatea, \u014ct\u0101ne, Hastings, Omakere, and Napier were at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews from Tamatea, Hastings, Otane, Norsewood and Maraekakaho were also tackling a second blaze on the same street.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extremely windy conditions are making firefighting difficult,&#8221; a Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>In an update this afternoon, FENZ confirmed the vegetation fires had been extinguished. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews have extinguished two large vegetation fires which broke out central Hawke&#8217;s Bay earlier today. Crews were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20277,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-586329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-hawke-s-bay","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586329","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=586329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}