Overnight and on Sunday, Wellington was hit by widespread torrential rain and flooding which has lead to landslides and damage to some\u00a0people’s homes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0businesses.<\/a><\/p>\n Brooklyn residents clearing gutters of debris from a slip further up the road.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Charlotte Cook<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Emergency Service workers have been on the front line, responding to flood related calls.<\/p>\n Daily Bread in Waiwhetu decided to offer free pies on Tuesday to any fire, police, ambulance, civil defence or support crew.<\/p>\n Bakery worker Pam Heng said its a way they can give back to those on the front line.<\/p>\n Daily Bread in Waiwhetu.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Krystal Gibbens\/RNZ<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n She reckons they could have given out close to 150-200 pies today.<\/p>\n “We’ve had crews with maybe over 10 people come in at a time, and we’ve had loads of crews come in.”<\/p>\n Emergency service workers needed to bring work ID or be in uniform.<\/p>\n Buzz Cafe on High Street also said it wanted to give back to those working hard to keep the community safe.<\/p>\n It was offering free coffee to emergency workers.<\/p>\n In a post on Facebook it said it was a small thank you for their big efforts.<\/p>\n An orange heavy rain warning is in place for most of Wellington and Wairarapa until Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Lower Hutt Bakery is offering free pies to emergency service workers as Wellington remains under a state of emergency. Wellington and Wairarapa have spent the night under a red heavy rain warning, with\u00a0downpours expected to continue. Overnight and on Sunday, Wellington was hit by widespread torrential rain and flooding which has lead to landslides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17224","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\/17224","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=17224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17226,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions\/17226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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