{"id":635431,"date":"2026-10-19T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635431\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:28:12","slug":"northwest-auckland-wildfire-firefighters-contain-blaze-near-whenuapai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635431\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Auckland wildfire: Firefighters contain blaze near Whenuapai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A local resident said the fire has broken out near the Whenuapai Air Force Base but not at the base.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Thick clouds of smoke billow into the sky over northwest Auckland.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Thick clouds of smoke billow into the sky over northwest Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A video of the blaze, believed to have started near Trig Rd, shows the smoke drifting over the nearby motorway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Another witness wrote on social media that they saw \u201clots of fire engines coming from Albany to the fire now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">North Shore residents say they can see and smell smoke drifting over Beach Haven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019d be closing your windows; that smoke is going to keep coming in thick for a while,\u201d another nearby local posted on socia media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\"> Police said they were not in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local resident said the fire has broken out near the Whenuapai Air Force Base but not at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77486,51,1558,4996,16651,55141,2837,2079,7572,52088,42,33262,8454,18087,3242,51720,3945,3180,36661,43,44182,1523,17711,85344,21532,35968,3948,40,38,41,39,158061,16550,87115],"class_list":["post-635431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-advisory","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-blaze","tag-bush","tag-contain","tag-during","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-grey","tag-headlines","tag-hour","tag-including","tag-issued","tag-large","tag-motorists","tag-motorway","tag-near","tag-nearby","tag-news","tag-northwest","tag-over","tag-parts","tag-plumes","tag-rush","tag-sends","tag-smoke","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-whenuapai","tag-white","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635431","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=635431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}