Controller Bobby Lamont News Today

Today 10 fire crews (35 firefighters), supported by one digger, continue to work on extinguishing a vegetation fire at Nenthorne, near Middlemarch in Waitaki, Otago which started in the early hours of Monday 11 March. Two crews monitored the fireground ...

Otago firefighters have now fully contained both vegetation fires in the Waitaki District, and they continue to work to extinguish hotspots. Residents who self-evacuated from the Nenthorn fire near Middlemarch last night are not yet able to return as ...

Fire and Emergency have extinguished one of the three fires in the South Island , while the other two were largely under control by 1pm on Sunday. The fire...

Fire and Emergency will return to the scene of the three fires in the South Island that burned in Selwyn, Central Otago and Southland last night. Fire crews...