A fire in Wenita's Mt Allan forestry block, northwest of
Dunedin, is expected to be the most expensive of its kind in
the country, the national rural fire authority says.
It is day 22 and counting for about 20 Wenita employees who
have been slugging it out in the smoky dustbowl that was once
a large part of the Mount Allan forestry area, and the work
is not going away.
It has little power to do anything about derelict houses, the
Dunedin City Council says, after an unoccupied house in
Mornington was destroyed in a massive blaze yesterday.
Slow down or risk killing a child. That is the message from
Dunedin police after bus drivers contacted them this week
concerned about the number of drivers speeding past school
buses.
The back-breaking work will continue for Wenita forest crews
as long as no rain falls at the Mt Allan forestry block after
820ha of land was damaged in a fire last month.
