{"id":605150,"date":"2026-09-19T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605150\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:08:09","slug":"one-of-wellingtons-two-high-reach-ladder-trucks-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605150\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Wellington\u2019s two high-reach ladder trucks catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">The incident occurred in the west-central Wellington suburb of Northland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said the fire has since been extinguished by one of their other engines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Mechanics were also heading out to assess the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson confirmed no one was injured and said crew members were not responding to a call at the time of the fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Instead, the incident occurred while they were \u201ccruising\u201d around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident occurred in the west-central Wellington suburb of Northland. The Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[665,12024,9525,14900,55275,2079,115242,33963,111,43,139,69,1118,5270,2847,29271,1237,52,15900,6123],"class_list":["post-605150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-around","tag-catches","tag-caught","tag-crew","tag-cruising","tag-fire","tag-highreach","tag-ladder","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-one","tag-only","tag-trucks","tag-two","tag-wellington","tag-wellingtons","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605150","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=605150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}