{"id":5819,"date":"2023-06-23T05:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2023-06-23T05:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:17:50","slug":"local-state-of-emergency-for-tairawhiti-metservice-upgrades-warnings-for-east-coast-130-evacuated-as-river-level-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5819","title":{"rendered":"Local state of emergency for Tair\u0101whiti, MetService upgrades warnings for East Coast, 130 evacuated as river level rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A local state of emergency has been declared for Tair\u0101whiti and all major roads out of the region are now partly closed by slips and flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tair\u0101whiti Civil Defence said a local state of emergency was declared at 4.45pm because of the severe weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At least 130 residents have either been evacuated or have self-evacuated, many of those are from the small town of Te Karaka, authorities have told the\u00a0<i>Herald<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">MetService this afternoon upgraded the East Coast\u2019s warning to its most serious \u2014 a red heavy rain alert.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local state of emergency has been declared for Tair\u0101whiti and all major roads out of the region are now partly closed by slips and flooding. Tair\u0101whiti Civil Defence said a local state of emergency was declared at 4.45pm because of the severe weather. At least 130 residents have either been evacuated or have self-evacuated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","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\/5819","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=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}