The principal of a school north of Christchurch says he's devastated after a fire razed two classrooms overnight. Fire and Emergency had multiple calls of a blaze visible from Kaiapoi North School at 1.45am this morning. Two crews from Kaiapoi arrived to find a classroom block well alight and crews were called in from nearby Rangiora and Woodend. Everything in those two classrooms is gone and there's just the bare bones of the building still standing. With five weeks left in the school year he said they would need to work through where to house the children.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 07, 2018 19:52 UTC