Fire crews attended a fire on Coates Rd in Birdlings Flat just after 4am on Tuesday. A person is missing after a fire destroyed a home in Canterbury early Tuesday morning. Emergency services are trying to find the missing occupant of a house on Coates Rd at Birdlings Flat, south of Banks Peninsula. JACK FLETCHER/STUFF Birdling's Flat beach, south of Banks Peninsula. Fenz spokeswoman Lyn Crosson said the house was "razed to the ground" by the fire.

Source: Stuff October 15, 2018 18:13 UTC