{"id":12058,"date":"2024-12-09T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12058"},"modified":"2024-12-09T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:46:07","slug":"crews-battle-canterbury-fire-residents-warned-to-be-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12058","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle Canterbury fire, residents warned to be prepared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural homes and a caravan park were evacuated near West Melton overnight as a large vegetation fire was fanned by high winds.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency says 12 trucks, tankers and support vehicles are there and its crews are working to contain the blaze, which was reported about 9pm on sunday.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>To share your stories and images of the fires with RNZ, please email<\/i><\/b>: iwitness@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>About 50 homes that were evacuated were in an area east of Thompsons Rd to McKays Rd, and a caravan park was evacuated in The Willows area.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were allowed back early on Monday but told to be ready to leave again if required.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency says four helicopters will begin operating with monsoon buckets at first light, when firefighters will get a better picture of how big the fire is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural homes and a caravan park were evacuated near West Melton overnight as a large vegetation fire was fanned by high winds. Fire and Emergency says 12 trucks, tankers and support vehicles are there and its crews are working to contain the blaze, which was reported about 9pm on sunday. To share your stories and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12060,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058\/revisions\/12060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}