The Coastal Fire Centre recorded over 800 lightning strikes hitting the region on Wednesday, which sparked at least 10 wildfires on the Island.
Gordon Robinson, fire information officer with the fire centre says it may be possible that more wildfires will be spotted in the coming days.
“We counted something like 800 strikes across the fire center,” Robinson said. “It’s very possible that we’ll see more [fire] starts from the lightning strikes if it hit the ground or a tree or something like that, there may be kind of a slow smoulder for up to a few days, before it flares up into anything that someone might see it and report it.”
He says it is likely there will be more lightning on the north Island and on the mainland this week, which the fire centre will be keeping an eye on for potential fires. Around 800 lightning strikes is not an unusually high number for thunder storms on the Island, but Robinson says one storm sparking 10 fires is notable.
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