{"id":14795,"date":"2025-08-25T17:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14795"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:43:21","slug":"firefighter-hit-by-vehicle-while-helping-victim-of-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14795","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter hit by vehicle while helping victim of fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A firefighter has been injured after being hit by a vehicle while attending a callout near the Otago town of Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>They were hit by the vehicle about 10.15am today while assisting someone who was injured after falling from a ladder at a Waitahuna Gully Road property.<\/p>\n<p>The firefighter was flown to Dunedin Hospital with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The person injured in the fall was also flown to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency deputy national commander Brendan Nally said the firefighter was being supported by staff and family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The firefighter&#8217;s brigade colleagues are also being supported by the Fire and Emergency peer support team and the local group manager,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>~VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A firefighter has been injured after being hit by a vehicle while attending a callout near the Otago town of Lawrence. They were hit by the vehicle about 10.15am today while assisting someone who was injured after falling from a ladder at a Waitahuna Gully Road property. The firefighter was flown to Dunedin Hospital with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795","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=14795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14797,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions\/14797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}