Firefighters are investigating whether a large vegetation fire that destroyed two homes in North Canterbury could be linked to a rubbish fire days earlier,.
All three large vegetation fires in North Canterbury remain contained and controlled with two in mop up stage. Swannanoa Six fire crews are working to suppress the vegetation fire burning over an estimated 12 hectares in and around the Waimakariri riverbed .
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