{"id":619210,"date":"2026-10-03T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619210\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:06:09","slug":"courageous-stranger-rescues-89-year-old-from-gisborne-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619210\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Courageous&#8217; stranger rescues 89-year-old from Gisborne house fire"},"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]\">A stranger who stopped his car, went into a burning Gisborne home and pulled an 89-year-old through a window has left police searching for him so they can say thank you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency NZ were called to a home ablaze on Aberdeen Rd at around 1am, responding with crews from Gisborne and Manutake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the man was in a car driving past and saw the blaze before pulling over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;He then entered the burning building and pulled the occupant to safety through a window. However, he left the scene before emergency services were able to speak with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Senior Sergeant John Love said the man&#8217;s actions deserved recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Police would like to identify the man so we can thank him for his quick thinking and courageous actions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 89-year-old was taken to hospital, where they remain under observation and further assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stranger who stopped his car, went into a burning Gisborne home and pulled an 89-year-old through a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12506,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-619210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-gisborne","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619210","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=619210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}