{"id":607027,"date":"2026-09-21T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:22:12","slug":"roads-closed-hotel-evacuated-in-central-dunedin-after-gas-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607027\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads closed, hotel evacuated in central Dunedin after &#8216;gas leak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hotel was evacuated with road closures in place in central Dunedin following a suspected gas leak this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency NZ said crews from St Kilda, Lookout Point, Roslyn, Dunedin and Willowbank responded to a suspected gas leak at Scenic Hotel Dunedin City on Princes St at around 3pm. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On arrival we found a faulty transformer was producing gas,&#8221; a FENZ spokesperson told 1News.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/crews-outside-the-scenic-hotel-dunedin-city-this-afternoon-UO6ZHCSZJFFEVG5JNBFNY3KZQY.jpg\" alt=\"Crews outside the Scenic Hotel Dunedin City this afternoon\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Crews outside the Scenic Hotel Dunedin City this afternoon (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>FENZ said the Scenic Hotel was evacuated and nearby roads were closed while crews worked at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Road closures remained in place on Princes St and Downing St. <\/p>\n<p>Police advised motorists to take alternative routes and avoid the area if possible. <\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it was notified on an incident on Princes St but was not required to respond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hotel was evacuated with road closures in place in central Dunedin following a suspected gas leak this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-607027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607027","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=607027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}