Firefighters battled two large house fires in Gisborne and Upper Hutt in the early hours of this morning. Photo / Bevan ConleyFirefighters battled two large house fires in Gisborne and Upper Hutt in the early hours of this morning. Photo / Bevan ConleyFirefighters have been kept busy battling two large house fires in the North Island in the early hours of this morning. Just over an hour later, a fire broke out at a house in Upper Hutt, in the Wellington region. It is not yet known whether anyone was inside the Upper Hutt house at the time of the fire, however.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 11, 2021 19:30 UTC