Baker said he wanted to help but wasn’t agile enough to climb onto the ablution block, which had taken the brunt of the landslide. Campers are seen on the roof of the ablution block at the Mount Maunganui campground immediately after Thursday's landslide. The roof of one of the camp buildings sits upturned on the ground after a large pōhutukawa came down in the landslide. It was coming onto the roadway up to those top sites.”Photos taken in the immediate aftermath of the Mount Maunganui landslide. He has been a broadcast journalist for 20 years and joined the Herald’s video team in July 2024.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 25, 2026 16:07 UTC