{"id":642139,"date":"2026-10-26T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642139\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:12:10","slug":"fire-at-waiouru-military-training-area-burns-230ha-may-last-another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642139\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Waiouru military training area burns 230ha, may last another day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A vegetation fire in the Waiouru Military Training Area has burnt about 230 hectares and could take a further 24 hours to extinguish, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency NZ was called to the fire on the Central Plateau at 10.15am on Monday, with crews from Waiouru, T\u016brangi and Southern Lakes among those attending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Thirteen NZDF personnel and nine Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) firefighters are battling the blaze, supported by five contracted helicopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The fire started on Sunday during live-fire training and was thought to have been controlled and extinguished before it reignited on Monday morning, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson earlier told 1News there were no concerns for anyone\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cEveryone is accounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Footage sent to 1News shows smoke billowing from the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Waiouru Military Training Area is near the southern end of the Desert Road, south-east of Tongariro National Park and Mt Ruapehu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vegetation fire in the Waiouru Military Training Area has burnt about 230 hectares and could take a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,31044,43,40,38,41,39,4143],"class_list":["post-642139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642139","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=642139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}