{"id":619122,"date":"2026-10-03T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619122\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:42:09","slug":"fire-destroys-half-of-hampden-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619122\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys half of Hampden house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of a house in Hampden has been badly damaged in an early-morning fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Otago firefighters battled the\u00a0blaze for nearly nine hours on Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said they were\u00a0alerted\u00a0just after\u00a03.30am.<\/p>\n<p>The Ipswich St house was &#8220;well involved in fire\u201d when crews arrived, with an estimated 50%\u00a0of the structure damaged, the spokesperson said.<br \/>The house was unoccupied.<\/p>\n<p>Seven fire appliances and support vehicles responded from Palmerston, Weston, Kakanui and Hampden fire brigades.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was put out\u00a0and crews had left the scene just after 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0 fire\u00a0investigator has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half of a house in Hampden has been badly damaged in an early-morning fire.\u00a0 North Otago firefighters battled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-619122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619122","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=619122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}