{"id":5453,"date":"2023-06-12T04:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2023-06-12T04:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T16:26:45","slug":"great-barrier-island-sand-dune-collapses-two-boys-critically-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5453","title":{"rendered":"Great Barrier Island sand dune collapses, two boys critically hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header c-story-header\">\n<h1 class=\"c-story-header__headline\">Great Barrier Island sand dune collapses, two boys critically hurt<\/h1>\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:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--EfjZ2TGh--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1643789457\/4MDTE12_image_crop_118880\" alt=\"Great Barrier Island\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Great Barrier Island. (File photo)\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ\/Carol Stiles<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two young boys are in critical condition after being trapped under a collapsed sand dune on Great Barrier Island.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Westpac Helicopters transported the pair to Starship Hospital at around 4:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>An afternoon on the beach turned to disaster when a dune collapsed and buried them.<\/p>\n<p>A rescue helicopter spokesperson said one boy is in his teens, and the other is younger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with them and their families,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>New Zealand Herald<\/i>\u00a0reported that Chairperson of the Greater Barrier Local Board Izzy Fordham said it was a &#8220;horrid time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Barrier Island sand dune collapses, two boys critically hurt Great Barrier Island. (File photo)\u00a0Photo:\u00a0RNZ\/Carol Stiles Two young boys are in critical condition after being trapped under a collapsed sand dune on Great Barrier Island. Auckland Westpac Helicopters transported the pair to Starship Hospital at around 4:30pm. An afternoon on the beach turned to disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/5453","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=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}