{"id":607879,"date":"2026-09-22T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T05:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:40:14","slug":"roads-reopen-following-reports-of-gas-leak-at-dunedin-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607879\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads reopen following reports of gas leak at Dunedin hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Dunedin streets have reopened after reports of a second gas leak\u00a0in less than 24 hours at a central Dunedin hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Fire and Emergency NZ spokesman said firefighters were called back to the\u00a0Scenic Hotel Dunedin City in Princes St at about 11.30am on Tuesday due to a strong smell of gas in the basement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7e4a3bdf-5f8a-4764-98a2-6346abca5bd6-jpg.webp\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7e4a3bdf-5f8a-4764-98a2-6346abca5bd6-jpg.webp\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Firefighters were called back to the Scenic Hotel Dunedin City in Princes St about 11.30am on Tuesday. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery <\/p>\n<p>The hotel was evacuated for the second time in two days.<\/p>\n<p>Staff and guests were allowed back in the building after firefighters gave the all clear at about 1.45pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hotel was evacuated for about five hours on Monday due to a smell of gas, also coming from the basement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part\u00a0of Princes and Dowling Sts were closed off for a number of hours.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_9124-jpg.webp\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2250\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_9124-jpg.webp\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2250\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Emergency services outside the Scenic Circle Hotel in Dunedin&#8217;s Dowling St. Photo: Craig Baxter <\/p>\n<p>Multiple fire appliances also attended Tuesday\u2019s reported leak.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police, who were assisting with traffic management, said Princes and Dowling Sts reopened to traffic and pedestrians before 2pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0poisons centre in Australia was contacted as part of Monday\u2019s incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Dunedin streets have reopened after reports of a second gas leak\u00a0in less than 24 hours at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-607879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/607879","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=607879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}