{"id":4509,"date":"2023-05-16T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2023-05-16T10:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:25:26","slug":"wellington-hostel-fire-live-updates-up-to-10-dead-in-fire-at-newtowns-loafers-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4509","title":{"rendered":"Wellington hostel fire live updates: Up to 10 dead in fire at Newtown\u2019s Loafers Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Urban search and rescue crews have started combing through the smouldering wreckage of a Wellington hostel where up to 10 people may have died in a horror fire overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It has been confirmed by authorities this morning that there were no sprinklers in the building &#8211; and there are still 20 people unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services converged on Loafers Lodge hostel in Newtown just before 12.30am after a fire was reported on the third floor of the four-storey building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The fire was well-involved and firefighters battled the flames as they engulfed the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/wellington-fire-at-newtowns-loafers-lodge-residents-flee-smoke-filled-corridors-fire-alarm-scares\/7EAZXGPMR5GI7E5IFYRVFVWJJU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resident Chris woke to a fire alarm<\/a>\u00a0and walked into the corridor but could not see anything amiss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBut then it was the neighbour [shouting] \u2018fire! fire!\u2019 and the whole hallway was filled with smoke,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He ran to grab his phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Grabbing his hat on the way out, Chris fell to the ground and began crawling out of his room, towards the stairway that would bring him to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was based on the other side of the floor to where the fire had sparked, residing fairly close to where the stairs were.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VIA NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban search and rescue crews have started combing through the smouldering wreckage of a Wellington hostel where up to 10 people may have died in a horror fire overnight. It has been confirmed by authorities this morning that there were no sprinklers in the building &#8211; and there are still 20 people unaccounted for. Emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,174,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","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=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}