{"id":640657,"date":"2026-10-25T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640657\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T06:44:09","slug":"takitimu-forest-fire-seven-helicopters-respond-in-southland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640657\/","title":{"rendered":"Takitimu Forest fire: Seven helicopters respond in Southland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>25 Oct, 2026 05:23 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Fire and Emergency said the fire was in a back-country area. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Seven helicopters were responding to a vegetation fire in Takitimu Forest in western Southland at 5.45pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The fire was south of State Highway 94, in a back-country area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand senior dispatcher and shift manager Daryl Ball said one helicopter was co-ordinating air traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Air traffic<br \/>\n         control was required whenever more than four helicopters were operating, he said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The size of the fire was not yet known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 25 Oct, 2026 05:23 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[314091,2079,3247,27513,78,111,43,139,69,4491,22704,202,15488,92203,23440,3608,3457],"class_list":["post-640657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-545pm","tag-fire","tag-forest","tag-helicopters","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-respond","tag-responding","tag-seven","tag-southland","tag-takitimu","tag-vegetation","tag-were","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640657","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=640657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}