{"id":623605,"date":"2026-10-07T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623605\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:24:09","slug":"crews-looking-for-person-after-house-fire-near-whitianga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623605\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews looking for person after house fire near Whitianga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person is being looked for after crews were called to a house fire on the Coromandel Peninsula this morning.  <\/p>\n<p>Two crews were sent to the blaze in Wharekaho, near Whitianga, at around 2.23am.  <\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said one person was being looked for.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were dampening down hotspots, and a fire investigator is due to arrive later today.   <\/p>\n<p>Police said an occupant raised the alarm and was being provded support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A scene guard remained in place overnight and police will be carrying out a scene examination at the house today, including working with fire investigators,&#8221; Senior Sergeant Chris Painter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person is being looked for after crews were called to a house fire on the Coromandel Peninsula&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9001,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-623605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623605","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=623605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}