By RNZ Two helicopters equipped with monsoon buckets are on their way to a large scrub fire near Doubtless Bay in the Far North. The blaze, in 1.5ha of pines.
Northland news briefs: No suspects in suspicious lodge fire; and Hongi Hika s musket withdrawn from sale after authenticity questioned
13 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Kohukohu s Masonic Lodge, a 130-year-old category 2 heritage building, was destroyed in a suspicious fire on April 30. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Kohukohu s Masonic Lodge, a 130-year-old category 2 heritage building, was destroyed in a suspicious fire on April 30. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Northern Advocate
Police investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed a heritage building in Kohukohu have a few more people to interview but no firm suspects yet. The 130-year-old Masonic Lodge was razed in a ferocious fire that started around 4.30am on April 30. Only the efforts of volunteer firefighters particularly Eva Walker and Lindsey Davidson and a neighbour with a garden hose stopped the fire spreading to nearby cottages. Kaitaia Detective Sergeant Simon Wihongi said he planned to interview a few more people this
Far North house fire: Locals desperately tried to save woman who died
4 May, 2021 05:01 PM
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Fire investigators Jason Goffin, left, and Gary Beer search the ashes of the Taemaro Bay home with help from neighbour Gary Watson. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Fire investigators Jason Goffin, left, and Gary Beer search the ashes of the Taemaro Bay home with help from neighbour Gary Watson. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
Two Far North men are being hailed as heroes in their isolated coastal community after dragging a kuia from a burning home and performing CPR until emergency services arrived.
Bernadette Basagre10:00, May 04 2021
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A woman has died in a fire in the Far North. Detective senior sergeant Mark Dalzell of Northland police said the 72-year-old died on Monday night in a house fire in Taemaro Bay. Emergency services were alerted of the incident about 10:30pm. The woman was the only occupant of the house, Dalzell said.
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