Fire ‘lit by homeless person’ under bridge near Feilding

Fire services responded to a fire lit under a bridge near Feilding on Wednesday morning. Photo / NZME.

Reports of smoke led fire services to a vegetation fire under a bridge near Feilding.

Fire and Emergency NZ shift manager Belinda Beets said someone saw “what looked like smoke” coming out of the Oroua River Bridge by the Feilding Golf Club at 10am on Wednesday.

“There was a small vegetation fire under there.”

Two crews from Feilding Fire Station responded.

Beets said the fire was “lit by a homeless person”.

Fire crews had left the scene by 10.20am.

Eva de Jong is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicle covering health stories and general news. She began as a reporter in 2023.