{"id":647833,"date":"2026-11-01T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647833\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:02:13","slug":"mount-maunganui-chlorine-leak-totara-st-closed-as-crews-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647833\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Maunganui chlorine leak: Totara St closed as crews respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/FJPH44WT65BRRCCAHK7OTQIFEE.jpg\" alt=\"Malisha Kumar\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/malisha-kumar\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Malisha Kumar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>1 Nov, 2026 12:55 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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\">Totara St is closed between Triton Ave and Hull Rd with diversions in place, while Fire and Emergency New Zealand tend to the chemical spill. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mount Maunganui motorists are being warned to expect delays as emergency services respond to a chemical spill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A social media post from the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union says the incident involves a \u201cmajor liquid chlorine leak from an IXOM tanker\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police were called to a commercial property on Totara<br \/>\n         St to assist with road closures about 11.40am.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Totara St is closed between Triton Ave and Hull Rd with diversions in place, while Fire and Emergency New Zealand tend to the chemical spill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">In a further social media update, the union said specialist hazmat crews were having to travel from Rotorua to attend the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malisha Kumar Multimedia journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 1 Nov, 2026 12:55 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,682,31515,317470,5201,23364,16492,15974,19338,5603,17707,51720,13233,111,43,139,69,4491,1321,48216,11420,139184,8222],"class_list":["post-647833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-being","tag-chemical","tag-chlorine","tag-closed","tag-crews","tag-delays","tag-emergency","tag-expect","tag-leak","tag-maunganui","tag-motorists","tag-mount","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-respond","tag-services","tag-spill","tag-st","tag-totara","tag-warned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647833","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=647833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}