{"id":631375,"date":"2026-10-15T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631375\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:38:13","slug":"sydenham-chemical-fumes-firefighters-rescue-two-after-workers-overcome-one-person-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631375\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydenham chemical fumes: Firefighters rescue two after workers overcome, one person critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency spokesperson told the Herald eight fire engines were at the \u201chazardous substance\u201d incident at Solvent Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">According to the Solvent Rescue website, the business is an independently owned and operated specialist solvent recycling and liquid purifying plant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The Fire and Emergency spokesperson said crews rescued two people affected by chemicals after entering the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Others were evacuated from the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Crews were working  to make the premises safe.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Emergency services at the scene of a chemical incident at a commercial premises in Sydenham, Christchurch.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Emergency services at the scene of a chemical incident at a commercial premises in Sydenham, Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said ambulance staff treated three people and took them to Christchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne patient was in a critical condition, and the other two patients were in moderate condition.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they were at the site  to manage traffic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fire and Emergency spokesperson told the Herald eight fire engines were at the \u201chazardous substance\u201d incident at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,31515,4487,1239,11728,13741,7572,193025,42,101,43,5270,37252,384,4056,8527,11426,110065,40,38,41,39,1237,102,4478],"class_list":["post-631375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-chemical","tag-christchurch","tag-condition","tag-critical","tag-factory","tag-firefighters","tag-fumes","tag-headlines","tag-left","tag-news","tag-one","tag-overcome","tag-people","tag-person","tag-rescue","tag-rushed","tag-sydenham","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-with","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631375","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=631375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}