{"id":598003,"date":"2026-09-12T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598003\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:16:10","slug":"wellington-airport-evacuation-fire-crews-respond-to-burnt-cooking-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598003\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Airport evacuation: Fire crews respond to burnt cooking alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Wellington Airport&#8217;s southwest pier was briefly evacuated this afternoon after a smoke alarm went off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wellington Airport\u2019s southwest pier was briefly evacuated this afternoon after a smoke alarm was activated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The area was quickly cleared for re-entry, Wellington Airport said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Fire and Emergency New Zealand was alerted to the alarm activation just before 2.20pm, with two crews responding, one from Kilbirnie and one from<br \/>\n         Newtown.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Firefighters arrived to find the activation had been caused by burnt cooking and left by 3pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[110760,74,11730,2681,6224,64865,48745,177848,6217,23364,40488,1549,2079,111,43,139,69,188624,4491,3948,33553,1961,61,52],"class_list":["post-598003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-activated","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-airport","tag-airports","tag-alarm","tag-briefly","tag-burnt","tag-cooking","tag-crews","tag-evacuated","tag-evacuation","tag-fire","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pier","tag-respond","tag-smoke","tag-southwest","tag-this","tag-to","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598003","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=598003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}