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.