{"id":634156,"date":"2026-10-18T07:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634156\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:58:14","slug":"firefighters-control-large-property-blaze-in-north-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634156\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters control large property blaze in north Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency services have controlled a large blaze at a north Auckland property, where plumes of black smoke were spotted above the hilltop house.<\/p>\n

A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said they were alerted at 2.05pm and sent 12 fire trucks.<\/p>\n

“Crews first arrived at 2.14pm, finding the fire well involved,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A helicopter reported to the scene, carrying a monsoon bucket of water. (Source: Angie Harvey)<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency said a helicopter with a monsoon bucket was used to prevent the fire spreading to the surrounding forest.<\/p>\n

“The fire spread to nearby vegetation, and one helicopter was on scene supporting ground crews with a monsoon bucket,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“The vegetation fire is now under control and the helicopter has left the scene,” FENZ said. <\/p>\n

\"FENZ<\/p>\n

FENZ received the initial call from someone who spotted the blaze from their boat. (Source: Sasha Murray)<\/p>\n

Neighbour Angie Harvey said despite the helicopter presence she was still worried.<\/p>\n

“[I’m] now watching the helicopter with monsoon buckets going back and forth,” Harvey said.<\/p>\n

“I’m hoping the neighbours are OK. Pretty scary stuff when you live remote in the bush!”<\/p>\n

\"Smoke<\/p>\n

Smoke billows from a house in Whangateau, near Omaha. (Source: Angie Harvey)<\/p>\n

Witness Sasha Murray told 1News she spotted the blaze from her boat at Ti Point around 1.40pm, and recorded the fire worsening until 3.12pm.<\/p>\n

A police spokesperson confirmed crews were only required for traffic management. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services have controlled a large blaze at a north Auckland property, where plumes of black smoke were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-634156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634156","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=634156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}