What the records say
- When
- 13 Feb 2017 – 20 Apr 2017
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Coordinates
- 43.61° S, 172.64° E
- Description
- two New Zealand wildfires during February of that year
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
2017 Port Hills fires
Two New Zealand wildfires during February of that year
The 2017 Port Hills fires were wildfires in the Port Hills of Christchurch, New Zealand. Two separate fires, several kilometres apart, started on Monday afternoon on 13 February 2017. By Wednesday night the fire was spread by the Christchurch Adventure Park chairlift and had combined to one large area. A helicopter crashed helping to fight the fires, causing the death of the pilot.
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- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Wild fires burn on the Port Hills of Christchurch”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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