Firefighters tackled two blazes near the clifftop estate of billionaire Graeme Hart in Glendowie, Auckland, on Friday.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency was alerted to the first blaze, above Gentleman’s Bay Beach, at 3.18pm on Friday by a person on a vessel, shift manager Josh Pennefather said.<\/p>\n
Three fire crews and a helicopter using a monsoon bucket fought the vegetation fire, which covered an area 100 metres by 50 metres, he said.<\/p>\n
The fire was extinguished by 7.40pm, then a 111 call alerted FENZ to a second fire about 10.50pm, Pennefather said.<\/p>\n
Four fire crews went to the second fire, just east of the first, which they accessed from Waitara Road, he said.<\/p>\n
With the helicopter not able to operate overnight, firefighters attacked the blaze from the ground and it was out by 1.40am Saturday, he said.<\/p>\n
Crews stayed on site overnight to monitor for flare-ups before leaving the scene around 6am.<\/p>\n
A fire investigator was looking into its cause, Pennefather said.<\/p>\n
Police said they assisted with an emergency response to a scrub fire and enquiries into the fires are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters tackled two blazes near the clifftop estate of billionaire Graeme Hart in Glendowie, Auckland, on Friday. Fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-646465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646465","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=646465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}