Wild weather causes outages, major damage and wild fires

21/10/2025 4 min
Wild weather causes outages, major damage and wild fires

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Episode Synopsis


A woman who found a man lying unconscious on a popular Wellington walking track has described the horrific scene that confronted her today. The man later died of wounds suffered when a branch fell on him as gales howled through the capital, and Wairarapa. The wild winds have brought down trees, cut power to thousands of homes, cancelled flights, and torn roofs off buildings. Ellen O'Dwyer reports.