{"id":631373,"date":"2026-10-15T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631373\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:36:10","slug":"three-people-overcome-by-chemicals-in-christchurch-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631373\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people overcome by chemicals in Christchurch incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been injured, one critically, after being &#8220;overcome by chemicals&#8221; at a premises in Christchurch this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said eight crews were called to a premises on Coleridge St in Sydenham before 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Crews entered the building and rescued two people who had been &#8220;affected by chemicals&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said crews were working to &#8220;make the scene safe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is currently nothing to say it was a chemical leak,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;There are no details to how the patients have been overcome by chemicals.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it was alerted to the incident at 3.50pm and responded with two ambulances, one rapid response unit and an operations manager.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were taken to Christchurch Public Hospital, one in a critical condition and two in moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>Road closures were in place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been injured, one critically, after being &#8220;overcome by chemicals&#8221; at a premises in Christchurch this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-631373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631373","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=631373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}