{"id":647337,"date":"2026-10-31T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647337\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:48:10","slug":"waiouru-blaze-contained-hot-spots-remain-fenz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647337\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiouru blaze contained, hot spots remain: FENZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Fire and Emergency is reporting gains overnight Saturday from firefighting efforts in Waiouru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Incident controller Craig Cottrill said 77 percent of the fire was now contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;The remaining areas will take a bit of hard work for crews to dig out and extinguish remaining hot spots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Ground conditions had improved enough to get vehicles in to more remote areas, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Fire and Emergency plans to gradually withdraw staff over coming days and return control to the Defence Force on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency is reporting gains overnight Saturday from firefighting efforts in Waiouru. Incident controller Craig Cottrill said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-647337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647337","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=647337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}