While firefighters continue to work on hot spots around the Nelson region, fourteen residents of Pigeon Valley have been allowed to return to their homes under caution. The remaining evacuees, about eighty houses, are allowed to go home between 8am and 2pm each day, but that depends on the wind. If the wind is strong, and blowing towards their houses, they cannot return home.
Yesterday one of the helicopters carrying monsoon buckets crashed in the Eves Valley area. The pilot jettisoned the monsoon bucket when he knew he was in trouble and made a hard landing near the road. He was injured, but not badly.
There hasn’t been any rain for some time, and fire bans are in place for most of New Zealand. If you want to light fire outside, you should check with the fire service first. Even in your garden, a barbecue that uses fire may not be permitted, but a gas barbecue is okay. The fire service’s website is checkitsalright.nz. On this website, you can find out the fire regulations for your area.
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Hi,Melissa,
I like your new way of learning vocabulary.
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Grace
Thanks, Grace!
Hi Melissa
I encourage my students to check ESL News regularly but feel a little disappointed in the irregularity of new posts – and the last three on the one topic, be it ever so important. You have a fan club out here and we are keen for more posts. Is that a possibility?
hi B, I have discovered that there is very little news to report in January in New Zealand, also a very low number of students using the website at this time. Hopefully now that all the journalists are back on the job and parliament is back in, things will get more interesting.