A fire is still burning in a woodpile three days after it started. The fire started in a pile of recycled timber at Canterbury's Burwood Resource Recovery Park on Thursday.
Today, Christchurch City Council said the recycled timber stockpile was still ablaze, and most of the timber had been burnt.
"The strategy is to allow this material to burn itself out and to ensure there is no potential for the fire to restart in the future," a council spokeswoman said.
"While it is still burning, there may be some smoke and a red glow visible at night," she said it could take a few days more for the wood to totally burn through.
"The fire is contained inside earth bunds and patrolling is in place to ensure it stays in the confinement zone. The southerly conditions have helped in taking smoke out to sea."
