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Fire Service found out about the fire from TV coverage of the cricket before anyone called it in. Big day for scrub fires, there's a big one behind Upper Hutt that's still burning & one just north of Hamilton that's now been put out.
Oh & Christchurch got a 5.7 quake just after 1300 local. No injuries reported so far but some property damage, more of the cliffs out Sumner way gone (see below) & obviously plenty of shredded nerves with the fifth anniversary of "the big one" only eight days away.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/76868658/live-57-earthquake-hits-christchurch
EDIT: More damage to Christ Church Cathederal, too:
Oh & Christchurch got a 5.7 quake just after 1300 local. No injuries reported so far but some property damage, more of the cliffs out Sumner way gone (see below) & obviously plenty of shredded nerves with the fifth anniversary of "the big one" only eight days away.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/76868658/live-57-earthquake-hits-christchurch
EDIT: More damage to Christ Church Cathederal, too: