{"id":648205,"date":"2026-11-01T22:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648205\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T22:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:36:18","slug":"waiouru-scrub-fire-83-contained-after-week-of-firefighting-control-handover-to-nzdf-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648205\/","title":{"rendered":"Wai\u014duru scrub fire: 83% contained after week of firefighting, control handover to NZDF planned"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) supplied other vehicles where needed to move personnel around the fire ground.<\/p>\n

The incident management team planned for a handover of control back to the NZDF today – one week after the fire started<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFire and Emergency will continue to support the New Zealand Defence Force incident management team by providing firefighting crews and specialists through the coming week,\u201d Cottrill said.<\/p>\n

Wai\u014duru firemaster and operations manager for this incident, Staff Sergeant Matthew Anker, said it had been invaluable for the NZDF to work with Fire and Emergency through \u201csuch a complex and challenging incident\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the NZDF, I want to thank Fire and Emergency crews, incident management teams and specialists for their exceptional support, expertise, and dedication in helping us manage and control this fire,\u201d Anker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are achieving good containment over the fire ground, significant work remains within the bush sectors to fully extinguish underlying hot spots. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur combined teams will continue working tirelessly in the days ahead to safely return the military training area to standard operations as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fin Ocheduszko Brown is a multimedia journalist based in Whanganui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) supplied other vehicles where needed to move personnel around the fire ground.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[184360,74,15408,12635,56884,10474,2079,112210,317601,647,111,43,139,69,111462,1118,26346,27611,61,8812,206623,686],"class_list":["post-648205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-184360","tag-after","tag-almost","tag-area","tag-contained","tag-control","tag-fire","tag-firefighting","tag-handover","tag-military","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nzdf","tag-of","tag-planned","tag-scrub","tag-to","tag-training","tag-waiuru","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648205","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=648205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}