{"id":618318,"date":"2026-10-02T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618318\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:30:09","slug":"fire-truck-rolls-while-racing-to-manawatu-blaze-three-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618318\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire truck rolls while racing to Manawat\u016b blaze, three injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Three people have been injured after a fire truck racing to a vegetation fire rolled in Manawat\u016b this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were alerted to the incident on Mt Biggs Rd in Halcombe at around 12.21pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Two people were in moderate conditions, with one taken to Whanganui Hospital and the other to Palmerston North Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hato Hone St John said it responded with two ambulances, a rapid response unit and one operations manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency NZ said the truck was responding to a vegetation fire when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The vegetation fire was also on Mt Biggs Road and was under control by 12.30pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Crews remained at the scene and cordons were in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency said it would provide support to those involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been injured after a fire truck racing to a vegetation fire rolled in Manawat\u016b this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31044,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-618318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618318","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=618318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}