{"id":93985,"date":"2025-10-22T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93985\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:29:07","slug":"parnell-vehicle-fire-crews-battle-blaze-after-responding-to-serious-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93985\/","title":{"rendered":"Parnell vehicle fire: Crews battle blaze after responding to serious crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cYou couldn\u2019t really tell what it was but it was a solid amount of flame,\u201d they told Newstalk ZB.<\/p>\n
Another said they could see “a very large line of flashing red and blue lights” on Tamaki Dr, all the way from Devonport.<\/p>\n
Emergency services are responding to a major vehicle fire in Parnell on Wednesday, October 22 2025. Image – Supplied<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said they have responded with three ambulances, one first response unit, one rapid response unit, and one operations manager.<\/p>\n
They are assessing one patient in a serious condition and one in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n
Reports on social media say the accident involved a bus and a car.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere seems to be moments of incredible flashes like if I could imagine a shed full of fireworks going up?\u201d one wrote on Reddit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never heard this many sirens blaring almost undisrupted probably ever it\u2019s looks horrific from my place [sic],\u201d another commented.<\/p>\n
A Herald reporter at the scene said emergency services have blocked off Tamaki Dr at The Strand.<\/p>\n
Images taken by a Herald photographer show Fire and Emergency trucks on both sides of the road. The fire appeared to be extinguished.<\/p>\n
Emergency services at the scene of a serious crash on Tamaki Drive on October 22, 2025. Photo \/ NZ Herald<\/p>\n
More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou couldn\u2019t really tell what it was but it was a solid amount of flame,\u201d they told Newstalk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3952,5837,4996,13912,3549,23364,19555,2079,661,111,43,139,69,43239,22704,1314,1238,1961,61,6845],"class_list":["post-93985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-battle","tag-blaze","tag-broken","tag-crash","tag-crews","tag-evening","tag-fire","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parnell","tag-responding","tag-road","tag-serious","tag-this","tag-to","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93985","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=93985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}