A local council representative drove through the Mount Maunganui campground and directly past three slips about two hours before a deadly landslide, a camper who contacted emergency services at the time says.
The woman, who was woken by one of the victims, Lisa Maclennan, early that morning, has spoken to RNZ about efforts to raise emergency services earlier that morning, including her own call to police three hours before the landslide.
She has also provided the first images of the initial slips that caused the calls to emergency services.
The victims of the landslide have been named as Lisa Anne Maclennan, 50, MΓ₯ns Loke Bernhardsson, 20, Jacqualine Suzanne Wheeler, 71, Susan Doreen Knowles, 71, Sharon Maccanico, 15, and Max Furse-Kee, 15.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said she had been at the campground for about three weeks and was staying right next to Maclennan and her husband.
She said she was woken shortly before 5am on Thursday morning to Maclennan banging on her window.
"She's like 'Oh I'm so sorry I'm waking you up', but the slip had pushed her campervan about a metre forward, so she said, 'I'm just waking everyone up because I think everyone should move'."
The woman moved her campervan straight away and Maclennan's campervan was moved parallel to the shower block.
The woman said the group then went to the office, but there was no one there.
She said Maclennan had tried ringing the emergency num
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