{"id":16507,"date":"2026-01-30T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16507"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:15:50","slug":"photographer-caught-breaching-mount-maunganui-landslide-cordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16507","title":{"rendered":"Photographer caught breaching Mount Maunganui landslide cordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photographer was caught breaching cordons near the site of the deadly Mount Maunganui landslide.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons were erected near the scene of last week&#8217;s landslide at the Mt Maunganui campground where six people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>The cordons remain in place while recovery efforts continue.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you know more? Email sam.sherwood@rnz.co.nz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In response to questions from RNZ Senior Sergeant Louise Curragh said a member of the media was seen breaching cordons on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon being made aware of this, police located the photographer, removed them from the cordon and any images taken within the cordon were deleted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police would like to thank other members of the media who have followed police instructions and stayed within the area of the cordons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Detective Inspector Lew Warner said the recovery operation had resumed after being suspended earlier in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the suspension of work is frustrating for everybody involved, the correct measures must be taken to ensure the safety of everybody at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to reiterate that it is absolutely necessary that we do everything in our power to keep the recovery team safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recovery team, involving Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand&#8217;s urban Search and Rescue, and contract drivers were continuing to focus on the area where the ablution block was, Warner said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is meticulous work which we have to conduct extremely carefully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teams will continue to work delicately through the area of interest, and we expect this to take some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photographer was caught breaching cordons near the site of the deadly Mount Maunganui landslide. Cordons were erected near the scene of last week&#8217;s landslide at the Mt Maunganui campground where six people were killed. The cordons remain in place while recovery efforts continue. Do you know more? Email sam.sherwood@rnz.co.nz In response to questions from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507","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=16507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16509,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507\/revisions\/16509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}