{"id":621454,"date":"2026-10-05T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621454\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:58:12","slug":"crews-battle-large-fire-in-central-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621454\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle large fire in central Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters were called to\u00a0a large blaze at a single-storey property in central Christchurch on Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were alerted to the fire at a structure on the corner of Fitzgerald Ave and Hereford St\u00a0just after 3.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u00a0cordoned off the area while fire crews tackled the blaze.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-2026-10-05-162018-jpg.webp\" width=\"494\" height=\"451\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-2026-10-05-162018-jpg.webp\" width=\"494\" height=\"451\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Smoke from the fire can be seen across Christchurch. Photo: Facebook <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency NZ crews\u00a0from the Christchurch Central and\u00a0Christchurch City stations were sent to the scene near A1 Auto 4 Services on Fitzgerald Ave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received multiple calls to what turned out to be a single-storey property well alight on arrival,\u201d a\u00a0Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from the fire can also be seen across Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s putting up a lot of smoke, but we\u2019re doing our best to get it out, and it\u2019s under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson\u00a0urged people to stay away from the area and not to panic.<\/p>\n<p>-Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters were called to\u00a0a large blaze at a single-storey property in central Christchurch on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 Emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-621454","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\/621454","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=621454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}