Update #1 – Deep Stream
Fire, 1500 hours Saturday 9 November 2019
Statement
can be attributed to a Fire and Emergency spokesperson
Seven helicopters are tackling a large fire near
Middlemarch in Otago.
Fire and Emergency says the fire
began on the edge of the Te Papanui Conservation Park just
before 11am and is burning an estimated 400 ha of tussock
and scrub.
Conditions in the area are hot and windy,
up to 50km/hr from the north east and forecast to increase
during the day. Ground crews are on standby but the terrain
is difficult to access and the fire is moving too quickly to
make on-ground attack an option at present.
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