{"id":631475,"date":"2026-10-15T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631475\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:00:12","slug":"industrial-fire-tauranga-mp-sam-uffindell-spots-smoke-while-door-knocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631475\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial fire: Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell spots smoke while door knocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pair \u201cinstinctively\u201d called 111 about 3.20pm and fire crews arrived about two minutes later.<\/p>\n

He said about 4pm crews were \u201cstill going at it\u201d but it appeared no one was in the building. <\/p>\n

Uffindell said fire crews arrived at the scene \u201cvery quickly\u201d. <\/p>\n

\"FirefightersFirefighters respond to a report of a fire in an industrial building in Judea, Tauranga. Photo \/ Cameron Templer<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just went in there, crowbarred open the door and smoke billowed out \u2026 <\/p>\n

\u201cThey had their masks on and went straight in.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency shift manager Nadine Davies said they received a call about an industrial building fire on Birch Ave at 3.20pm.<\/p>\n

Four fire engines from Mount Maunganui, Tauranga and Greerton responded.<\/p>\n

It comes two days after Uffindell made headlines when he pulled over to help a motorcyclist<\/a> injured in a crash a few cars ahead of him near the Tauranga Harbour Bridge.<\/p>\n

\"NationalNational MP Sam Uffindell stopped to help a woman after a motorcycle crash near Tauranga Harbour Bridge on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just go about my business and if I ever see anyone that needs help, then I try and help them \u2026 on Tuesday, it was the lady who had come off her motorbike, and today, it was an industrial fire,\u201d Uffindell said today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to think all people would do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Annabel Reid<\/a> is a multimedia journalist for the Bay of Plenty Times and the Rotorua Daily Post, based in Rotorua. Originally from Hawke\u2019s Bay, she has a Bachelor of Communications from the University of Canterbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pair \u201cinstinctively\u201d called 111 about 3.20pm and fire crews arrived about two minutes later. He said about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6259,2079,1404,6266,6368,111,43,139,69,18460,3948,10041,1227,92202,6123],"class_list":["post-631475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-door","tag-fire","tag-industrial","tag-knocking","tag-mp","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sam","tag-smoke","tag-spots","tag-tauranga","tag-uffindell","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631475","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=631475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}