Aucklanders have finally returned to their homes months after a school fire spread asbestos through their neighbourhood. The asbestos “funnelled” down the street after a blaze broke out in a technology block at Ponsonby Intermediate School on December 8. Sheehan St residents started a Whatsapp group, Kendall said, to try and figure out what to do. It was chaotic.”Supplied Black smoke could be seen from the North Shore after a fire at Ponsonby Intermediate school. Kendall’s fellow Sheehan St residents Charlie and Carmen Tatham agreed the process had been “horrible” and communication about what to do had been poor.

Source: Stuff February 23, 2021 15:56 UTC