{"id":589,"date":"2020-12-15T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=589"},"modified":"2020-12-15T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:02:48","slug":"crews-fighting-blaze-on-christchurchs-port-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Crews fighting blaze on Christchurch&#8217;s Port Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews are battling a scrub fire on Christchurch Port Hills, with smoke visible across parts of the city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news\/251515\/eight_col_fire.jpg?1607987901\" alt=\"Smoke can be seen from a fire near Christchurch.\" width=\"477\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Smoke can be seen coming from near the suburb of Clifton.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eight appliances are at the scene, as well as water tankers and a Command Unit, after the emergency services received calls from the public around 11.30am about a fire at Galilee Lane.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said people were being told to stay away from the area.<\/p>\n<p>A large\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/432682\/large-scrub-fire-in-port-hills\">scrub fire on the Port Hills in Christchurch<\/a>\u00a0on Friday forced the evacuation of about 40 properties when it broke out above Hillsborough late at night. It burned through about 25 to 30 hectares of land.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday it was announced that Canterbury would move to a restricted fire season from midnight Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><i>More to come&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crews are battling a scrub fire on Christchurch Port Hills, with smoke visible across parts of the city. Smoke can be seen coming from near the suburb of Clifton.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Supplied Eight appliances are at the scene, as well as water tankers and a Command Unit, after the emergency services received calls from the public around 11.30am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}