A fire-lighter starting blazes in the tinder-dry pine plantation near Alexandra could cause a catastrophe, police and firefighters say.
Four deliberately lit blazes have scorched a crop of mature pines on Central Otago District Council land, between Dunstan Rd and State Highway 8 in the last week, the Otago Daily
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