{"id":16702,"date":"2026-02-21T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16702"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:28:15","slug":"northcote-college-to-close-for-a-week-after-fire-destroys-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16702","title":{"rendered":"Northcote College to close for a week after fire destroys building"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header c-story-header\">\n<h1 class=\"c-story-header__headline\">Northcote College to close for a week after fire destroys building<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-story-header__meta\">\n<div class=\"c-social\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<nav class=\"c-social__menu\">\n<div class=\"c-social__buttons\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--fjjvt-F3--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1771653801\/4JSUKII_Media_jfif?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"A fire destroyed the sport's pavillion at Northcote College.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">A fire destroyed the sport&#8217;s pavillion at Northcote College.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Victoria Young<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Northcote College will shut for a week after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/587429\/watch-fire-tears-through-pavilion-at-auckland-s-northcote-college-during-firefighters-strike\">fire destroyed one of its buildings<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Facebook, the college said it had &#8220;been advised by the Ministry of Education and specialist contractors to close the school for the safe demolition and removal of the fire damaged building which includes some asbestos cladding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The school will be moving to online learning from Monday 23 February to Friday 27 February.<\/p>\n<p>Students and wh\u0101nau have been urged to check emails for further information.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out about 12.15pm on Friday afternoon, and smoke could be seen billowing from the school&#8217;s sports pavillion, a large wooden hall with a high pointed roof.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said the first call about the fire came in at 12.17pm, during a one-hour strike by the Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU).<\/p>\n<p>It took the volunteer Silverdale crew about 17 minutes to arrive at the school.<\/p>\n<p>Northcote College principal Vicki Barrie said she was proud of how staff and students responded to the fire in the sports pavillion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northcote College to close for a week after fire destroys building A fire destroyed the sport&#8217;s pavillion at Northcote College.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Victoria Young Northcote College will shut for a week after a\u00a0fire destroyed one of its buildings\u00a0on Friday. In a post on Facebook, the college said it had &#8220;been advised by the Ministry of Education and specialist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702","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=16702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16705,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions\/16705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}