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Raw: Drone footage of Fox Glacier crash site
A recovery team works at Fox Glacier after the helicopter crash, which killed pilot Mitch Gameren and six others. Footage/Supplied
A recovery team works at Fox Glacier after the helicopter crash, which killed pilot Mitch Gameren and six others. Footage/Supplied
Attempts to recover the remaining three bodies were cut short today after stormy weather closed in.
Four stranded members of the recovery team working at the Fox Glacier helicopter crash site were in for a long night after stormy weather closed in.
The police Eagle helicopter was sent to Little Shoal Bay after police received a call from ambulance around 5.30pm that the girls were in trouble.
Five of the 24 houses in the Waikakaho Valley have been evacuated by Police.
Initially it was thought a child was unaccounted for, but it was later confirmed all the kids from the house were safe.
A police spokesman said the accident had happened on Great South Road outside the Manukau Holiday park near Costar Place shortly after 12:30.
Rescue crews are again on standby today as bad weather continues to hamper the Fox Glacier helicopter crash recovery operation.
A woman has suffered "crush injuries" after being trapped under a car in Leigh this morning.
All firefighters including volunteers, career staff and brigades in urban and rural areas will be pulled together into a single national service.
Emergency services are currently at the scene of the crash on Welcome Bay Road, Waitao.
At least one fire has been started by fireworks as New Zealanders celebrate Guy Fawkes today.
A middle-aged man found in flames behind a Birkenhead restaurant was taken to Auckland Hospital in a serious condition last night.
Emergency services were last night called to a North Shore restaurant where a person is believed to have suffered serious burns.
A school boy has had spear removed from his leg after he accidentally shot himself while eeling.
Two people have been airlifted to Waikato Hospital after the vehicle they were travelling in at high-speed rolled.
A family had to flee a burning house in Hamilton this evening.
Police are currently at a house in Otara, guarding the scene, where a young man was seriously injured.
The Auckland Rescue Helicopter was called to Whatipu, in the Waitakere Range on the west coast of Auckland, just before 7pm yesterday.
Canterbury dad says he's still lost for words after the shocking news his son Michael had been hospitalised in a critical condition.
A man is in hospital in a serious condition after a gas bottle explosion. St John ambulance South Island spokesman Ian Henderson said ambulance crews were called to the site at Maddisons Rd in Rolleston at 2.43pm.
Police today said Daniel Aretz, 37, died in the collision between his BMW G650 motorbike and a motorcyclist in a group travelling in the opposite direction.
Michael James Burnby, 44, died in Christchurch Hospital from injuries he suffered in Saturday's smash, police said this afternoon.
Canterbury Police and Canterbury District Health Board are concerned at the emergence of 25B-NBOMe, described as a powerful synthetic hallucinogen.
The Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter has been called to transport the victims to hospital.
A fire communications spokesman said all emergency services were in attendance but no one was trapped in any of the vehicles.
A motorcyclist who crashed into a power pole in Upper Hutt today has died. The crash happened on Fergusson Drive, near St Patrick's College, about 2.20pm.
A chemical spill closed streets and caused hundreds of people to be evacuated in central Dunedin.
A child is dead after a crash on a rural highway near Tirau involving a car and a pedestrian.
A 50-year-old truck driver crushed by metal beams while unloading his vehicle at a Hamilton factory today is in a serious but stable condition.