{"id":73645,"date":"2013-06-15T03:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T08:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=73645"},"modified":"2013-06-15T06:14:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T11:14:49","slug":"generator-catches-fire-at-hobbit-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/06\/15\/73645-generator-catches-fire-at-hobbit-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Generator catches fire at Hobbit set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"desolation of smaug poster\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-73016 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-600x889.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/> Some breaking news via Stuff.co.nz. A huge cloud of smoke engulfed a Hobbit film set on the Miramar Peninsula when a generator caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Scragg, who saw the fire from a Roseneath home on the other side of Evans Bay, said clouds of smoke engulfed a lighting tower on the set which has been built on land close to the old Mt Crawford Prison.<\/p>\n<p>The lights went out and then came back on again, said Mr Scragg who said a number of fire trucks were seen racing to the scene.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out just before nightfall at 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>The fire service said they had to send several fire engines to the scene because it was not close to a water supply. <\/p>\n<p>The fire engulfed a diesel fuel tank and generator and took about 20 minutes to put out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It definitely wasn&#8217;t theatrical smoke,&#8221; the fire service spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was at the scene of the gutted citadel film set.<\/p>\n<p>It was understood to represent Dale, the town of men under Lonely Mountain, which gets scorched by Smaug the dragon and buildings on the set, built in a patch of bush, were made to look as though they had been gutted by fire.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/national-news\/large-generator-catches-fire-hobbit-set-5465410\">TVNZ<\/a> offers a few more details. Most importantly, they report that no-one was injured in the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>TVNZ says that the fire occurred on an old military track near the site of the old Mt Crawford prison. Four fire engines and a command vehicle responded, putting out the fire in the shipping-container-sized generator without any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>TVNZ says the woodland area is understood to be being used for night filming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some breaking news via Stuff.co.nz. A huge cloud of smoke engulfed a Hobbit film set on the Miramar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,333,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SpyShotDale3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-j9P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73649,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645\/revisions\/73649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}