{"id":597369,"date":"2026-09-11T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597369\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:40:20","slug":"two-children-in-critical-and-serious-conditions-taken-to-tauranga-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597369\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children in critical and serious conditions taken to Tauranga Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">They said on Friday they had nothing to add.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The Bay of Plenty Times visited the street on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The home is in a semi-rural coastal setting with kiwifruit orchards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Residents of the area, who did not want to be named, said they saw emergency services at the property on Wednesday afternoon, including a police car, fire truck and ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">They said they had no idea what had happened. Police stayed at the property for some time after the ambulance and fire crew left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">They were shocked to hear later the children had been taken to hospital, and hoped they and their family were okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">They did not know the family but had seen a preschool-aged child and a woman pushing a baby in a pram there before, and believed it may be a multi-generational household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said on Friday they had nothing to add. The Bay of Plenty Times visited the street on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,1061,8278,11728,2241,78,111,43,139,69,1238,19554,1227,61,1237],"class_list":["post-597369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-children","tag-conditions","tag-critical","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-serious","tag-taken","tag-tauranga","tag-to","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597369","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=597369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}