A fire covering about 20 hectares of Arthurs Pass vegetation has now been contained - 09-Mar-2022
A fire covering about 20 hectares of Arthurs Pass vegetation has now been contained
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A fire covering about 20 hectares of Arthurs Pass vegetation has now been contained
A fire covering about 20 hectares of Arthurs Pass vegetation has now been contained
Heavy rain continues to fall in Canterbury, raising fears of further evacuations and flooding, particularly in Ashburton where half of the town's residents are preparing to leave their homes.
Tinder dry conditions across Canterbury and Otago have pushed the fire risk in many places to extreme levels.
John Kirk-Anderson/Stuff Most areas in Canterbury and Otago are at extreme risk of fire as a combination of hot temperatures, lack of rain and strong winds continue to drive up the threat on Easter Monday. Strong northwesterly gales potentially reaching 130 kilometres per hour have been forecast in exposed places throughout Canterbury throughout Monday. This triggered a severe weather warning from the MetService for the Canterbury High Country until 1pm on Monday and a strong wind watch for Christchurch and the Canterbury plains for most of the morning. Fire and Emergency New Zealand area c...