Glen Vercoe News Today

A year after Cyclone Gabrielle smashed through Hawke's Bay civil defence controller Ian Macdonald talked to RNZ's Hawke's Bay reporter about the biggest emergency response of his career.

Emergency services are working frantically to rescue “multiple people that are trapped and require assistance” in flood-ravaged areas near Napier.
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Frightening footage has emerged of a bridge in Tararua bending under the weight of flood water, large branches and debris before breaking and being washed