{"id":596432,"date":"2026-09-10T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596432\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:04:12","slug":"auckland-airport-domestic-terminal-evacuated-during-morning-peak-after-alarm-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596432\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Airport domestic terminal evacuated during morning peak after alarm sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Footage from the airport shows scores of passengers waiting on footpaths outside and leading to the terminal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland Airport confirmed the domestic terminal was evacuated this morning following the activation of sprinkler sensors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAirport Emergency Services and Fire and Emergency New Zealand responded, the alarm has since been silenced and the terminal has been cleared for staff and passenger re-entry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said as operations return to normal, the terminal would be busy, and some arriving and departing flights may be delayed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPassengers should contact their airline for further details of flight impacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe thank travellers for their patience and co-operation,\u201d the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">More to come &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage from the airport shows scores of passengers waiting on footpaths outside and leading to the terminal. Auckland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,2681,64865,51,3952,1558,14772,77,14736,2837,40488,305,1304,111,43,139,69,29459,13028,79790,97090,30331,1961],"class_list":["post-596432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-airport","tag-alarm","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-burning","tag-detected","tag-domestic","tag-during","tag-evacuated","tag-have","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passengers","tag-peak","tag-smell","tag-sounds","tag-terminal","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596432","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=596432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}