{"id":617382,"date":"2026-10-01T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617382\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:52:10","slug":"street-cordoned-off-after-serious-incident-in-south-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617382\/","title":{"rendered":"Street cordoned off after &#8216;serious incident&#8217; in South Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services are responding to a &#8220;serious incident&#8221; unfolding in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Shanan Gray said police were called to the scene on Cambridge Tce at around 6.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cordons are in place as emergency services work at the scene. It is likely these will remain through the night,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>St John said it responded with one ambulance, a critical care unit and an operations manager.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency NZ said it sent three crews from Papatoetoe and \u014ctara to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police have asked the public to avoid the area at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services are responding to a &#8220;serious incident&#8221; unfolding in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe this evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-617382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/617382","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=617382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}