{"id":618364,"date":"2026-10-02T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618364\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:44:10","slug":"cooks-beach-teenager-dies-after-reported-fall-from-cliff-at-coromandel-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618364\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooks Beach: Teenager dies after reported fall from cliff at Coromandel beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately, the person is deceased, and our thoughts go out to the family,\u201d Cooks Beach Fire Rescue spokesperson Brayden Jack said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Jack thanked everyone involved for their hard work and assistance, including the combined Cooks and H\u0101hei crews, police, ambulance and Westpac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">He said they had worked in \u201cextremely hard\u201d and \u201cvery difficult and dangerous conditions\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere will be a lot going on at the Cooks Beach station tonight. We would ask that the public would give everyone space and do not come down to the Fire Station,\u201d Jack said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it sent two local first response units, a helicopter and a manager to the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Cordons remain in place while emergency services work at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">The death will be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUnfortunately, the person is deceased, and our thoughts go out to the family,\u201d Cooks Beach Fire Rescue spokesperson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1975,7972,12636,77340,22506,6179,7126,19555,3592,38403,71,42,43,10903,15267,17182,4054,1961,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-618364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-at","tag-beach","tag-cliff","tag-cooks","tag-coromandel","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-evening","tag-fall","tag-falling","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-reported","tag-reportedly","tag-teenager","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618364","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=618364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}