{"id":4498,"date":"2023-05-16T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2023-05-16T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:21:09","slug":"evacuations-after-fire-breaks-out-in-central-wellington-hostel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4498","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations after fire breaks out in central Wellington hostel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">esidents at a Wellington hostel have been evacuated after a large building fire broke out at Loafers Lodge in Newtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">Witnesses to the scene said that there were five fire appliances trying to put out the blaze, which broke out shortly after midnight, on Adelaide St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">It was understood that some residents had been evacuated and were being attended by emergency services. Firefighters were seen on the roof of the hostel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sics-component__story-image\">\n<div class=\"sics-component__story-image__image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sics-component__story-image__image--not-gallery\" src=\"https:\/\/resources.stuff.co.nz\/content\/dam\/images\/4\/z\/4\/w\/7\/3\/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.710x400.4z4w72.png\/1684170967591.jpg?format=pjpg&amp;optimize=medium\" alt=\"A photo taken of the fire at Loafers Hostel on Adelaide St in Newtown, Wellington.\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"sics-component__caption\">\n<div class=\"sics-component__caption__top-line\"><cite class=\"sics-component__caption__producer\">SUPPLIED<\/cite><\/div>\n<div class=\"sics-component__caption__caption\">A photo taken of the fire at Loafers Hostel on Adelaide St in Newtown, Wellington.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">A witness said flames had engulfed at least the top couple floors of the building.<\/p>\n<div id=\"piano-article-readmore\" class=\"sics-component__basic-div-container--piano-container\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">\u201cFlames could be seen coming from the roof and fire services are still currently working to extinguish it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE STUFF NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>esidents at a Wellington hostel have been evacuated after a large building fire broke out at Loafers Lodge in Newtown. Witnesses to the scene said that there were five fire appliances trying to put out the blaze, which broke out shortly after midnight, on Adelaide St. It was understood that some residents had been evacuated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4498","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\/4498","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=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}