{"id":597615,"date":"2026-09-12T00:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597615\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:42:18","slug":"one-dead-after-house-fire-on-bay-of-plentys-matakana-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597615\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after house fire on Bay of Plenty&#8217;s Matakana Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has died in a house fire on Matakana Island in the Bay of Plenty this morning.  <\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson told 1News that crews were called to Paama Court on the island, located north of Tauranga and Mt Maunganui, at 4.09am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from Matakana Island, Greerton, and \u014cmokoroa\u00a0responded to the blaze.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage we can advise that one person was located deceased inside the property,&#8221; Senior Sergeant Dave Marshall said.<\/p>\n<p>One person was treated for burns.  <\/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<p>An investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the fire.  <\/p>\n<p>Matakana Island is a long, flat barrier island in the Western Bay of Plenty which is 20km in length and rarely more than 3km wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died in a house fire on Matakana Island in the Bay of Plenty this morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-597615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597615","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=597615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}