{"id":90557,"date":"2025-10-20T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:43:08","slug":"rotorua-fire-whakarewarewa-sports-club-blaze-brought-under-control-by-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90557\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua fire: Whakarewarewa sports club blaze brought under control by crews"},"content":{"rendered":"
A fire investigator would be attending at the scene today, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
In a message posted on Facebook, club president Marty Hatu said: \u201cUnfortunately our beloved club was caught in a fire early this morning. The fire has now been extinguished and the Fire and Emergency team are currently on site carrying out their mahi.\u201d<\/p>\n
It said at this stage, fire and police officers were conducting investigations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kindly ask everyone to please stay away from the club and allow the teams to do their work safely and efficiently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to keep everyone updated as we work through this unfortunate situation together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crews battled a fire at Whakarewarewa Rugby Community Sports club overnight.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month the club celebrated its success at the Bay of Plenty Rugby Awards, describing it as a \u201cthe year that keeps on giving\u201d.<\/p>\n
The club won many awards, including Marty Hatu for Administrator of the Year, Ngarimu Simpkins for Coach of the Year, Jessie Mason-Grant for Player of the Year, Jordyn Tihore for Women\u2019s Player of the Year and both Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Team of the Year.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s team won the Baywide Premier final in July against Tauranga Sports, its first Baywide win in 19 years. <\/p>\n
The women\u2019s team also won the Baywide Championship final.<\/p>\n
More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire investigator would be attending at the scene today, the spokesperson said. In a message posted on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6632,4996,11783,3595,18836,68114,10474,23364,2079,305,111,43,139,69,1327,38715,213,8238,68113],"class_list":["post-90557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-battled","tag-blaze","tag-brought","tag-by","tag-club","tag-clubrooms","tag-control","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-have","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rotorua","tag-rotoruas","tag-sports","tag-under","tag-whakarewarewa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90557","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=90557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}