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Speaker 2: Big News Today are a fire at Victoria Part Let's

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Speaker 2: go live now to Susie Norkwist, who is at Victoria

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Speaker 2: Park New World. Susie, good afternoon, Good afternoon, So what

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Speaker 2: is the latest? What are you seeing? Are you directly

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Speaker 2: outside the supermarket as we speak.

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Speaker 3: This is a pretty huge response in spectacular themes here

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Speaker 3: at Victoria Park New World, which is in central Auckland.

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Speaker 3: Firefighters are still battling displace. They will call to the

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Speaker 3: fire about eleven twenty this morning, and I're battling it

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Speaker 3: from all angles. Really. From here, I can see sort

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Speaker 3: of cherry pickers from up above fighting the fire. They've

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Speaker 3: busted the hose has actually just busted through the side

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Speaker 3: of a New World. You can see where the smoke

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Speaker 3: has charged aside of the building. And look there are

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Speaker 3: hundreds of people gathered around from members of the public,

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Speaker 3: curious and of course firefighter from all across Auckland and

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Speaker 3: people in Ponsmanby, which is a nearby suburb, are being

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Speaker 3: told to close their windows Grayland as well. They've been

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Speaker 3: pictures circulating showing that people can actually see this across

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Speaker 3: the bridge in Auckland's north shore and Takapoona, So that

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Speaker 3: gives you a sense of how big this event is.

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Speaker 1: Anyone injured? Do we know?

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Speaker 3: Prior an emergency have told us that everyone made it

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Speaker 3: out safely, which is good news. Construction workers were on

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Speaker 3: site at the time. And this talk that the spine

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Speaker 3: may have started in the storeroom underneath the building, though

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Speaker 3: there's actually a car park, and I was talking earlier

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Speaker 3: to a woman whose vehicle is actually in that car park.

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Speaker 3: She said, there are a few vehicles down there. So look,

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Speaker 3: we'll hear more about that, and actually shortly there's going

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Speaker 3: to be immediate briefing so we will be able to

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Speaker 3: clarify some of those details.

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Speaker 2: Excellent, And is there any word at all yet on

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Speaker 2: how it started.

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Speaker 3: We have heard that it may have started in a storeroom,

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Speaker 3: but that is sort of just word of mouth at

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Speaker 3: the moment. But look, it's caused a lot of damage

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Speaker 3: and traffic disruptions here this afternoon. Obviously nearby suburbs, as

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Speaker 3: they say, have been told to close their windows. Look

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Speaker 3: it's not PKR yet, but later on, you know, it

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Speaker 3: could cause some chaos on the roads as well, with

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Speaker 3: nearby roads closed all around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and from when you're standing, you've got any idea

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Speaker 1: of the level of damage?

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Speaker 2: Are we looking at a complete rebuild here?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm no expert, but I'm looking one side and

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Speaker 3: there's this holes that have been busted from the fire

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Speaker 3: pose all across the builder on one side of the building.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, I would say it'd be a

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Speaker 3: huge reefer after this.

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Speaker 2: Susie, thank you very much for speaking with us. Stay

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Speaker 2: safe and we'll catch up a little bit later this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: That is News Talks EDB Susie norkwith outside the scene

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Speaker 2: of the large fire at Victoria Park, New World.

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