{"id":68780,"date":"2025-10-09T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/68780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:03:07","slug":"military-helicopter-evacuated-after-engine-fire-reported-at-ohakea-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/68780\/","title":{"rendered":"Military helicopter evacuated after engine fire reported at Ohakea air base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The aircraft landed at Ohakea at 10.28am and the crew evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere was no external evidence of fire, but the aircraft is now being investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The emergency state was cancelled just before 11am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency shift manager earlier confirmed they had sent an appliance to assist with the \u201cincident\u201d at RNZAF Base Ohakea, but given it was happening on a military base he declined to comment further. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">He directed further queries to the New Zealand Defence Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Ohakea is one of three military air bases in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aircraft landed at Ohakea at 10.28am and the crew evacuated. \u201cThere was no external evidence of fire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,68,1975,2943,15974,32878,40488,2079,47065,55060,15028,5812,647,1304,111,43,139,69,55059,15267,1961],"class_list":["post-68780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-air","tag-at","tag-base","tag-emergency","tag-engine","tag-evacuated","tag-fire","tag-helicopter","tag-indications","tag-landing","tag-make","tag-military","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ohakea","tag-reported","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68780","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=68780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}