Fire-damaged home in Waipukurau set ablaze as part of firefighter training exercise 2 May, 2021 11:49 PM 2 minutes to read Firefighters take part in controlled house burn in Waipukurau. Video / Bay View Volunteer Fire Brigade Three minutes. That's all the time it took for the two-storey, three-bedroom home to be fully engulfed in flames. The "typical Kiwi home" in Waipukurau was deliberately set alight as part of a controlled burn training exercise for firefighters organised by Fire and Emergency New Zealand over the weekend. Hawke's Bay area commander Ken Cooper said they regularly looked for opportunities to give new firefighters "more realistic" training in relation to structure fires.