A pipe has burst in central Wellington, causing significant flooding to a building and a nearby property.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency said it received a call at 4.35am, notifying them of flooding on Willeston Street.<\/p>\n
Three fire trucks remain at the scene on Wednesday, pumping water out of the building’s basement.<\/p>\n
Victoria Street has been cordoned off between Willeston and Hunter Streets, and one of the buildings has been evacuated.<\/p>\n
However, one lane will be opened up to let traffic through at “lunch time”.<\/p>\n
Multiple storefronts were blocked off.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency’s senior station officer Steve Mackle said the burst pipe was a private water main into one of the affected buildings.<\/p>\n
The flooding then spread to the neighbouring basements.<\/p>\n
Mackle said two buildings were significantly affected.<\/p>\n
Power supply in affected buildings was cut off.<\/p>\n
Some shops are continuing to operate without power.<\/p>\n
Mackle said once the water has been pumped out, engineers will need to check the foundations.<\/p>\n
They will then need to check that the power connections and life safety systems are safe and working.<\/p>\n
“It’s a big basement with a lot of water, we will just have to wait and see at this stage.”<\/p>\n
One of the businesses continuing to operate without power was clothing story Annah Stretton.<\/p>\n
Retail Assistant Samantha Solomon said it would hit them in the pocket.<\/p>\n
“Definitely not a lot of customers in, people are just thinking that we are closed so definitely an impact there in terms of sales.”<\/p>\n
She said they were trying do manually process payments due to the lack of power.<\/p>\n
“A lot of cards don’t have online order ability, I can’t take security codes if they don’t have them so I can’t do a lot of the payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pipe has burst in central Wellington, causing significant flooding to a building and a nearby property. Fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-492639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492639","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=492639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}