{"id":607327,"date":"2023-01-31T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=607327"},"modified":"2023-02-10T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:04:08","slug":"emergency-lifted-after-new-zealand-storm-less-than-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/emergency-lifted-after-new-zealand-storm-less-than-feared","title":{"rendered":"Emergency lifted after New Zealand storm less than feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 of 9WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) &#8212; New Zealand&#8217;s Northland region lifted a state of emergency declaration Wednesday after an overnight storm didn&#8217;t turn out as bad as feared.A heavy rain warning for Auckland was also lifted, although a state of emergency remained in place for the nation&#8217;s largest city after record rainfall and flooding on Friday killed four people and caused widespread disruption.Weather forecasters had predicted another night of heavy rain. Ron Devlin, the regional manager for Fire and Emergency New Zealand, told reporters that crews had dealt with more than 50 weather-related callouts Wednesday morning in and around Auckland. &#8220;But I want to stress the rain didn&#8217;t reach the point that was predicted, which is a great thing, and so we&#8217;re quite comfortable with the amount of events that we&#8217;re attending,&#8221; Devlin said. &#8220;This is business as usual for fire and emergency.&#8221;Northland, located north of Auckland, had declared the emergency Tuesday in anticipation of a deluge, a move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) &#8212; New Zealand&#8217;s Northland region lifted a state of emergency declaration Wednesday after an overnight storm didn&#8217;t turn out as bad as feared. A heavy rain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}