Helicopter with monsoon bucket tackles large Coromandel bushfire started by allegedly drunk camperSUPPLIED The large bush fire was spreading quickly through the northern tip of the Coromandel Peninsula. A helicopter with a monsoon bucket is battling a five-hectare vegetation fire in the Coromandel - which was sparked by an alleged drunken fireworks escapade. SUPPLIED "Within five minutes, it was a full-on bushfire," says a witness who claims a drunk driver's firework started the blaze. Earlier in the morning campers at Fletcher's Bay forcibly removed car keys from an allegedly drunken camper who sparked the blaze at midnight. He stopped, and then sparked fireworks and shot it straight up.

Source: Stuff December 31, 2017 14:08 UTC