11 Mar 2024

Fire crews dampen down hotspots after Otago blazes

From Midday Report, 12:42 pm on 11 March 2024

Firefighters remain at the scene of two fires which broke out in Otago.

No homes have been lost, but Fire and Emergency says a small number of farm buildings have been destroyed or damaged at Nenthorn, near Middlemarch, while the other fire at Earthquakes, near Duntroon, has burned through 30 hectares of conservation land.

FENZ Otago Commander Phil Marsh spoke to Ben Strang.