UPDATED 4.24pm: Firefighters have contained a massive blaze that has been burning for five days on the Chatham Islands.
Two helicopters and fire crews have had another big day tackling the burn.
About three-thousand hectares of private land has been left blackened by the blaze, which is just a kilometre away from a DOC reserve.
A fire investigator has been sent to the island to determine the cause.
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