{"id":85695,"date":"2025-10-18T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85695\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:35:08","slug":"false-alarm-forces-evacuation-of-auckland-airport-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85695\/","title":{"rendered":"False alarm forces evacuation of Auckland Airport terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers at Auckland Airport were forced to evacuate this morning after a fire alarm, leading to long queues. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand said it received an alarm activation from the domestic terminal, which was found to be caused by cooking at 7.43am. <\/p>\n<p>Two firetrucks, along with Auckland Airport Emergency Services, responded.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds cleared out of the terminal and gathered outside as crews assessed the scene. <\/p>\n<p>FENZ confirmed it was a false alarm, and the terminal had since been reopened. <\/p>\n<p>A 1News staffer who was at the airport at the time said queues for security screening stretched &#8220;basically the length of the terminal&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Auckland Airport said it thanked passengers for their patience. <\/p>\n<p>Air New Zealand said flights were now operating as usual, but there could be some &#8220;minor delays&#8221; as it worked to get its schedule back on track. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate our customers\u2019 patience and encourage them to check the Air NZ app for the latest updates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers at Auckland Airport were forced to evacuate this morning after a fire alarm, leading to long queues.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-85695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85695","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=85695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}