{"id":13858,"date":"2025-06-05T05:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13858"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:43:44","slug":"gales-hit-wellington-roof-ripped-off-cold-snap-for-south-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13858","title":{"rendered":"Gales hit Wellington, roof ripped off, cold snap for South Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Wellington roof flies over suburb to another street<\/b><\/p>\n<div>Strong winds have lifted the roof of a house in the Wellington suburb of Newlands, leaving it uninhabitable.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Emergency services were called shortly after 2am to an address on Sunhaven Drive.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Fire and Emergency shift manager Belinda Beets said the roof of the building &#8220;relocated itself to another address&#8221; on Tamworth Crescent, where it landed on another house. The two streets do not connect.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The house on Sunhaven Drive is a duplex with two sets of occupants, she said. One resident has evacuated and found another place to stay, while Wellington Region Emergency Management Office is helping the other set of occupants to find accommodation for the night.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>No one was injured, Beets said.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Meanwhile, firefighters are trying to secure what is left of the roof with general-purpose wire, although continuing strong winds are hindering their efforts.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>No damage to the Tamworth Crescent house has been reported, but it will be checked properly during daylight.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The incident has been the only weather-related callout in the central and lower North Island overnight, Beets said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>rnz<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington roof flies over suburb to another street Strong winds have lifted the roof of a house in the Wellington suburb of Newlands, leaving it uninhabitable. &nbsp; Emergency services were called shortly after 2am to an address on Sunhaven Drive. &nbsp; Fire and Emergency shift manager Belinda Beets said the roof of the building &#8220;relocated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/13858","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=13858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions\/13859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}