{"id":597519,"date":"2026-09-11T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597519\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:16:10","slug":"person-unaccounted-for-as-crews-battle-house-fire-on-bay-of-plenty-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597519\/","title":{"rendered":"Person unaccounted for\u00a0as crews battle house fire on Bay of Plenty island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person remains unaccounted for as crews battle a house fire on Matakana Island in Bay of Plenty.  <\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson told 1News that crews were called to the island north of Tauranga and Mt Maunganui at around 4.09am.  <\/p>\n<p>Crews from Matakana Island, Greerton, and \u014cmokoroa\u00a0responded to the blaze.  <\/p>\n<p>FENZ said one person remains unaccounted for.  <\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said it responded with a helicopter, and a person was taken to Waikato Hospital in a moderate condition.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person remains unaccounted for as crews battle a house fire on Matakana Island in Bay of Plenty.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-597519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597519","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=597519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}