{"id":3560,"date":"2023-03-08T05:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2023-03-08T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:52:39","slug":"auckland-southern-motorway-truck-fire-explosions-residents-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3560","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Southern Motorway truck fire: Explosions, residents evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Homes have been evacuated and a section of Auckland\u2019s southern motorway is closed as an explosive truck fire sent flying projectiles into nearby properties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire crews have been working to contain the burning chemical truck after the blaze broke out just north of the northbound Papakura on-ramp, just before 3am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Resident Steven Shortt said he was woken by several explosions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe truck was on fire outside our house. It started with the rear carriage. Within 10 minutes the whole rear carriage had gone. About 15, 20 minutes later, the whole front carriage was on fire. With chemicals, we evacuated<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homes have been evacuated and a section of Auckland\u2019s southern motorway is closed as an explosive truck fire sent flying projectiles into nearby properties. Fire crews have been working to contain the burning chemical truck after the blaze broke out just north of the northbound Papakura on-ramp, just before 3am. Resident Steven Shortt said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/3560","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=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}