Fourteen homes were evacuated as a precaution, but residents have since returned.

Fire and Emergency say seven fire trucks, two tankers and three helicopters remain on site.

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04 Nov: State Highway 98 is closed, just north of Invercargill, after a crash

04 Nov: Major company Forest360 Limited is committing to making site roads safer

04 Nov: Explosions have been heard at a scrub fire in in Canterbury's Darfield - which has claimed three structures since flaring into life about 10am

04 Nov: The missing tramper found dead on the West Coast over the weekend, is understood to be a 27-year-old German

04 Nov: Boaties are being asked to extra care in Southland's Riverton

04 Nov: People in Kaikoura are being urged to look for nationally vulnerable Hutton's shearwater birds, which may have crash landed

04 Nov: Police are boosting their presence in Orewa north of Auckland, after a cafe was deliberately set fire to over the weekend

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