Mr Scott said the weather was cooler than yesterday, which would help in battling the fire today. Wairoa District Council was due to move the area to a total fire ban tomorrow. Tokomaru Bay was in "mop up" and 30 firefighters were working to make sure the fire stayed contained.įour aircraft were at the blaze at Mahia Beach with others on stand-by. The fire had "quietened down" but was not contained at this stage, he said.Īnother "significant" fire at Tokomaru Bay, 92km north of Gisborne, had stretched resources, Mr Scott said.
Rural fire officer and response co-ordinator Don Scott told Radio New Zealand fifty rural firefighters and the fire service were battling the fire. "I was out there with my hose, but then they cut the power off so now we don't have water," she said.Ī fire communications spokesman said last night that six houses along YMCA Rd had been evacuated.
The fire came within 150 metres of her house. Mahia resident Nell Spencer was surrounded by the fire in her YMCA Rd home last night and said the only way she and her family could get out was on foot. It quickly spread over more than six hectares of land between YMCA Rd and Kaiwaitau Rd. The houses were evacuated as four helicopters with monsoon buckets and nine fire engines fought the fire after it started about 4pm.
Clubrooms, two chalets, the YMCA and houses were destroyed. The fire yesterday forced the evacuation of six homes near Mahia Beach. Eight buildings have been destroyed by a large scrub fire still blazing near Mahia Beach, 54km southeast of Wairoa.
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