Sometimes, we receive our news about Wellington from Twitter:

And then we follow it up with emails:

10:05 am (7 minutes ago) llew:
Quay Corporate told me that something near them is on fire – they’re very near Real Groovy

And more emails:

10:06 am (6 minutes ago) James Guthrie:
yep. 2m flames coming from a bust pipe.

10:08 am (7 minutes ago) Hadyn Green:
that’d be why power was out everywhere*.
blog it!

And now we need you to fill in the details for us!

* That explains why the bus wires were down this morning. Sigh. It’s hard to be passionate public transport advocate sometimes.