{"id":621998,"date":"2026-10-06T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621998\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:08:09","slug":"khyber-pass-rd-reopens-after-gas-leak-prompts-newmarket-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621998\/","title":{"rendered":"Khyber Pass Rd reopens after gas leak prompts Newmarket evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">There were no reports of injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson said the gas main was accidentally struck during kerb removal works, triggering the leak and evacuation.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Emergency services cordoned off part of Khyber Pass Rd in Auckland's Newmarket after a reported hazardous gas incident.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Emergency services cordoned off part of Khyber Pass Rd in Auckland&#8217;s Newmarket after a reported hazardous gas incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency was called at 9.41am, with Remuera and Auckland City appliances attending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency told the Herald that a specialist hazardous materials unit from the Auckland station also attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Police had advised motorists to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland Transport warned that the incident may cause disruptions, cancellations and detours to public transport services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were no reports of injuries. Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson said the gas main was accidentally struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3952,15974,50924,16460,306135,5603,661,111,31915,43,139,69,51252,12064,48047,2642,20593,1854,5034,1321],"class_list":["post-621998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-emergency","tag-evacuations","tag-gas","tag-khyber","tag-leak","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-newmarket","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pass","tag-prompted","tag-prompts","tag-rd","tag-reopened","tag-reopens","tag-response","tag-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621998","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=621998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}