A mystery man has been hailed as a “hero”, after he entered a burning building to save an 89-year-old from a housefire in Gisborne.<\/p>\n
The fire on Aberdeen Road was reported to emergency services about 1am Saturday.<\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant John Love said police understood the man was driving past the burning home, saw the fire and pulled over.<\/p>\n
“He then entered the burning building and pulled the occupant to safety through a window.<\/p>\n
“However, he left the scene, before emergency services were able to speak with him.”<\/p>\n
Love said police were now looking for the man to thank him for “his quick thinking and courageous actions”.<\/p>\n
The occupant of the burning home was taken to hospital for further assessment and observation.<\/p>\n
Love encouraged anyone with information that could help identify the man to contact Police on 105, quoting file number P067820889.<\/p>\n
Police said a scene examination was carried out on Saturday with Fire and Emergency New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mystery man has been hailed as a “hero”, after he entered a burning building to save an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-619534","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\/619534","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=619534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}