Choppers sent to fight Dunedin fire
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Save Smoke from the fire at Waipori Falls can be see from as far away as Henley. Photo / Bree Thompson
Four helicopters and ground crews are battling a blaze in Waipori Falls this afternoon.
A Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) spokesman said 50 hectares of tussock and scrub had caught fire near Waipori Falls Rd, about 1.20pm.
Three crews from Waihola, one crew from Outram and a Dunedin Command
Unit were at the scene, or on their way.
Four helicopters were also working to put it out, he said.