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Thursday 23 March 2017

The Fire in the port hills


The fire was caused by an electric fault lots of houses got burnt The port hilldown. Lots of people were evacuated Most of the quarry was blocked off and sadly  1 person died as he crashed his helicopter while trying to save lots of people’s lives. His family would be really upset. My mum’s friend got up on our roof and he could see all the flames. The fire was coming down the hill Oh no! My grandad could see the flames from his kitchen window and you can even see it from Rolleston. There were 12 fire trucks, 7 helicopters with monsoon buckets, 2 airplanes with monsoon buckets. It was really humongous and scary and heartbreaking for people who lost their homes. The helicopters pilots used pools and rivers to try to get the fire out but the water kept making it worse. Christchurch was in a state of emergency once again. House fire on the corner of ...

4 comments:

  1. You put a lot of effort into this piece of work. It was a great recount of the terrible fire on the hills. I hope this will never happen again. you used some great words like evacuated.

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  2. Could we have some more of your work blogged.

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  3. your bog is cool

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