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Auckland is in clean-up mode

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sat, 28 Jan 2023, 5:37PM
Police and other emergency services responded to a call where a landslide had brought down a house on Shore Road, Remuera last night. Photo / Hayden Woodward
Police and other emergency services responded to a call where a landslide had brought down a house on Shore Road, Remuera last night. Photo / Hayden Woodward

Auckland is in clean-up mode

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sat, 28 Jan 2023, 5:37PM

Auckland's in clean-up mode.

Fire and Emergency teams have responded to more than two-thousand call outs.

Landslips and flooding have closed multiple roads, including sections of both routes north, on State Highways 1 and 16.

Up to 265-millimetres of rain fell in some areas, and 48 truckloads of slip material has already been shifted off the road from one site alone.

Around 70 people have visited the Civil Defence Centres in Kelston, Albany and Randwick since they opened yesterday.

A civil defence emergency was declared yesterday and remains in place.

One man was found dead in a flooded culvert in Wairau Valley, and another in a flooded carpark on Link Drive.

A third person has now been found dead after a landslide bought down a house in Remuera

Another man is still missing after being swept away in floodwaters just after 10 last night in Onewhero.

Around 3,800 customers are without power this afternoon a majority in areas impossible to access.

Fallen trees and slips in the west have blocked the roads, and a bridge has been swept away, including near Laingholm, Bethells Beach, Riverhead, Coatesville, Titirangi and Swanson.

Vector is working with Civil Defence and NZTA on how to get through, but it's likely to be some time.

Three people are confirmed dead: the first two in the Wairau Valley area, and today a body was found at a Remuera property.

There is one person still missing after being swept away in Onewhero.

MetService is warning of further rainfall for Auckland, although nothing is likely to match the severity of the past 36 hours.  

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