Family s holiday up in smoke as car destroyed by inferno near Kerikeri
21 Jan, 2021 02:06 AM
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Ōkaihau and Kerikeri volunteer firefighter Karen Mudgway, aided by a truckie, tackles the flames. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Ōkaihau and Kerikeri volunteer firefighter Karen Mudgway, aided by a truckie, tackles the flames. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
A family s holiday plans came to a fiery end when their car turned into an inferno on State Highway 10 near Kerikeri today.
The incident caused major disruption to already busy summer traffic with cars backed up in both directions along the highway and down Kerikeri Rd almost to the town centre.
Bay View BP fire: Woman says stranger seeking ride placed bucket of fuel on passenger s lap
19 Jan, 2021 02:04 AM
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The BP service station in Bay View, Napier was badly damaged from the blaze. Video / Hayley Monro
The BP service station in Bay View, Napier was badly damaged from the blaze. Video / Hayley Monro
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke and Doug Laing
A woman in a car linked to a Napier service station inferno says the fire started after a stranger trying to hitch a ride had placed a bucket of fuel on the lap of another passenger.
Three people were inside car when bucket of fuel ignited at BP
18 Jan, 2021 09:11 PM
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The BP service station in Bay View, Napier was badly damaged from the blaze. Video / Hayley Monro
The BP service station in Bay View, Napier was badly damaged from the blaze. Video / Hayley Monro
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke and Doug Laing
Three people were inside a car when a bucket of fuel inside the car ignited at a Hawke s Bay petrol station, starting a massive forecourt inferno, police have confirmed.
Eastern District criminal investigations manager Detective Inspector Rob Jones said police had been reviewing evidence from the blaze at BP Bay View, which included extensive CCTV footage from just before and after the fire.
Studying written records preserved from the 14
th century, they found that Central Europe had been plagued by fires and reduced crop yields , as agriculture depended on enormous amounts of water during that time. Seen together, these conditions would be consistent with the onset of long-term drought. Further GWZO research confirmed that drought conditions were experienced in much of the Middle East during the same 14th-century period, indicating the global nature of the phenomenon.
“We want to show that historical climate change can be reconstructed much better if written historical sources are incorporated alongside climate archives like tree rings or sediment cores,” explained Dr. Martin Bauch, who led the GWZO team of researchers who participated in the new study, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal