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Up to 30 firefighters and two helicopters continue to fight a vegetation fire, which has spread across 1.5 hectares of land in Northland on Monday afternoon.
Fire and Emergency NZ was called to the fire at 12:40 p.m. Sunday, shift manager Paul Radden said.
The fire is in rural Punaruku, northeast of Whangārei, near the Whangaruru port.
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Two helicopters and several fire crews are fighting a fire in Punuruku, northeast of Whangarei.
The fire is in an agricultural station, in bushes and pine forests.
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The helicopters are using monsoon buckets, filled with water from a nearby stream, to smother the flames.
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Several fire crews from the Whangārei and Far North districts are fighting a fire in Punuruku, northeast of Whangarei.
Radden said several crews are fighting the blaze.
By 3:20 p.m., the fire had increased by 50 percent, but firefighters were confident it was contained to that size, he said.
There is a total fire ban in Northland due to dry tinder conditions.
On December 29, some 100 houses in the far north city of Ahipara were evacuated by a wildfire.
