Published: January 06, 2020
About 70 firefighters battle largest blaze on North Island’s east coast while power outages hit thousands of people on both islands
Bushfire season has begun in New Zealand with hundreds of hectares of forest going up in flames at half a dozen separate blazes on the east coast of the North Island.
Seven helicopters and two planes are working to combat the largest blaze, in the Waipatiki forest outside of Napier, with about 70 firefighters on the ground, Fire and Emergency said.
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