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‘Smoke chaser’ used to fight out-of-control cooking fire

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Firefighters were called to the end of Kaiti Beach Road on Wednesday night after a small cooking fire a man had lit in trees and scrub got out of hand.

Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews there at around 8pm.

A Senior Station Officer said they could not get their big fire appliances to the location due to limited access at the far end of the beach.

“So we used a 4x4  ‘smoke chaser’ vehi...


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