Emergency services respond to sabotaged fuel pipe at Auckland petrol station. Photo: RNZFire and Emergency have discovered that it is a power cable - not a fuel pipe - which has caused a diesel leak in South Auckland on Monday. Three crews have been at the scene on Great South Road in the suburb of Manurewa since 6.30am this morning. Northpower helped Fire and Emergency to establish that it was a power cable with fuel insulation around it in order to cool it down. A lane on busy Great South Road was closed with traffic being moved around it.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 29, 2026 21:00 UTC