A fire truck has broken down after being called to a blaze at a house under construction in Auckland’s Herne Bay this evening.<\/p>\n
Fire crews were called to the scene on Sarsfield St at 5.40pm, a Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson told 1News. <\/p>\n
The fire was on the first level of the 30m x 30m structure.<\/p>\n
Three trucks were in attendance, down from four at the peak of the fire, the spokesperson said. The blaze has been contained. <\/p>\n
Crews from Auckland, Parnell and Takapuna attended.<\/p>\n
However, NZ Professional Firefighters Union vice-president Martin Campbell told 1News one appliance carrying a crew came to a halt on Ponsonby Rd on its way to the fire.<\/p>\n
Campbell said the accelerator snapped on the truck from the Grey Lynn Station in Williamson Ave.<\/p>\n
He said he understood the appliance would have been the first to attend the fire, had it not broken down.<\/p>\n
A fire investigator has been called to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire truck has broken down after being called to a blaze at a house under construction in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-64955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64955","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=64955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}