{"id":64103,"date":"2024-05-16T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/16\/one-year-ago-a-deadly-boarding-house-fire-shook-new-zealand-we-must-prevent-another-tragedy"},"modified":"2024-05-16T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:31:12","slug":"one-year-ago-a-deadly-boarding-house-fire-shook-new-zealand-we-must-prevent-another-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64103","title":{"rendered":"One year ago, a deadly boarding house fire shook New Zealand. We must prevent another tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Loafers Lodge blaze prompted a review of safety standards at New Zealand\u2019s 800 boarding houses but more action is needed<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, Wellington\u2019s mayor said her city had endured one of its \u201cdarkest days\u201d after a fire broke out at the Loafers Lodge boarding house, killing five people.<strong> <\/strong>On that day the air in New Zealand\u2019s capital filled with black smoke and soot, and the city later mourned the loss of some of its most vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve months on, not enough is being done to prevent another such tragedy, experts believe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Max Rashbrooke is a New-Zealand-based writer with interests in economic inequality and democratic participation. He is a senior research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/16\/one-year-ago-a-deadly-boarding-house-fire-shook-new-zealand-we-must-prevent-another-tragedy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Loafers Lodge blaze prompted a review of safety standards at New Zealand\u2019s 800 boarding houses but more action is neededOne year ago, Wellington\u2019s mayor said her city had endured one of its \u201cdarkest days\u201d after a fire broke out at the Loafers Lodge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64104,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64103\/revisions\/64104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}