Fire and Emergency earlier urged motorists to give plenty of room on the local roads for the big response. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re driving in the area, please make way for emergency vehicles, as a large number of fire trucks are heading to the site.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this stage, there is no indication that structures are at risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll update this post when we have more information about the fire and any impact on the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
At 8.30pm there was no information to suggest that SH4 was affected by the blaze.<\/p>\n
They could not say what caused the fire, first reported at 5.15pm, but said there would be an investigation. <\/p>\n
Large plumes of smoke can be seen billowing high into the evening sky across the burning vegetation. <\/p>\n
One rural resident said the wind had been stronger earlier and \u201cwe had ash falling around our house\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems to have settled a bit now. I can see three helicopters working,\u201d said Joni Reynolds.<\/p>\n
The resident said they had a plan to evacuate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe neighbours have been in touch, we will just keep an eye on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another resident who lives 20 minutes from Fordell told the Herald the fire \u201cmust be pretty big if I could see it from my house\u201d.<\/p>\n
In January, 11 tankers and one helicopter responded to a similar large vegetation fire in Parikino<\/a>.<\/p>\n This follows an already difficult start to the summer season for central North Island firefighters. Fire crews have had to deal with two large fires in nearby Tongariro National Park.<\/p>\n Last week an \u2018accidental mishap\u2019 started a 296ha blaze<\/a> which was quickly contained. While last month a larger fire<\/a> in the National park resulted in evacuations and took a number of days to bring under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency earlier urged motorists to give plenty of room on the local roads for the big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1972,38501,111168,23364,2079,7572,3238,3011,116049,27513,78,3242,97347,3180,111,43,139,69,3111,116048,22704,23440,116050,1883,102],"class_list":["post-183061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-block","tag-breaks","tag-buckets","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-forestry","tag-four","tag-fourteen","tag-helicopters","tag-in","tag-large","tag-monsoon","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-parikino","tag-responding","tag-vegetation","tag-vicinity","tag-whanganui","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}