Crews from 2 stations have responded to the vegetation fire after being alerted just after 4:30pm.

The Transport Agency says the highway is closed near Frethy Drive.

The recommended detour: through State Highway 41, 32 and Pohipi Road.

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Other Accident and Emergency News

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

03 Nov: The fire is still burning at a house in Wellington's Island Bay - reported just before seven this evening

03 Nov: A coroner's warning of the risks of DIY, after a Northland man was crushed and killed while fixing his ride-on lawnmower

03 Nov: An overbridge hit by an electric bus which then caught fire will remain closed until it's been assessed by a structural engineer

03 Nov: A house fire in Chrischurch's Hoon Hay last night isn't being treated as suspicious

02 Nov: A crash has blocked State Highway 2, at Kaitoke, north of Upper Hutt

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