{"id":73146,"date":"2025-10-12T03:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73146\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:46:06","slug":"one-dead-another-critically-injured-after-canterbury-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73146\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, another critically injured after Canterbury house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died and another person has been taken to hospital in critical condition after a house fire overnight in Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the residence on Dunford St in Rakaia at about 11.15pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Five crews were sent to the property, which was &#8220;well ablaze&#8221; and with people reported inside. Firefighters rescued two people from the burning building.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one person was found dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death will be referred to the coroner, and inquiries are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and another person has been taken to hospital in critical condition after a house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-73146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146","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=73146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}