Castle Hill fire

Nine helicopters, three planes, and 12 trucks, tankers and support vehicles are among the resources being thrown at the fire.

A school camp has been evacuated amid “extreme fire behaviour” from a large scrub fire spreading across the Southern Alps this morning.

SH73 closed around 9.30 am today between Castle Hill and Arthur's Pass village due to a large scrub fire near the highway, says NZ Transport Agency Waka ...

An overnight crew of firefighters have been fighting the blaze from State Highway 73 as it has been deemed too dangerous to go off road in the dark. On Thursday ...

Ground crew had remained at the scene overnight. In the nearby Castle Hill village, 14 homes self-evacuated while another 11 remained occupied, according to ...

The massive blaze in Canterbury that caused mass evacuations remains uncontained and out of control. Smoke from the Bridge Hill fire drifted towards Castle.

Efforts are ramping back up to fight the Castle Hill blaze, which has seen some Cantabrians evacuated.

The large vegetation fire at Bridge Hill did not reach Castle Hill Village overnight, and no emergency evacuations were required, according to Fire and ...

Three fire investigators are on the fire ground now in a joint investigation with Police which, because of the size of the fire, is likely to take most of ...

Ray and Maree Goldring were given the option to evacuate but after they made careful preparations at home, the couple opted to stay.

District commander Dave Stackhouse said the perimeter of the fire was now 17km long but that the weather was improving firefighting conditions.