A FENZ spokesperson said approximately half of the units in the block were on fire.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Facebook \/ I Love New Zealand<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A FENZ spokesperson said approximately half of the units in the block were on fire.<\/p>\n The units were under construction so there was no indication of anybody being inside, they said.<\/p>\n Fire and Emergency (FENZ) crew attend the blaze.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Liu Chen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jerome Tauevihi, who lives next door to the new block of units, told an RNZ reporter at the scene his family arrived home this morning to the smell of smoke.<\/p>\n “We got inside the house, and then that’s when we smelled the flames […] so I told my family to evacuate, come up to the road, straight away.”<\/p>\n He said it looked like about four of the nine new units had been affected, and that the fire had spread quickly.<\/p>\n Firefighters have been working to dampen down hotspots and the fire had since been extinguished.<\/p>\n Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ Rod Wood<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ Rod Wood<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fire and Emergency (FENZ) crews were called to a blaze on Hain Avenue in M\u0101ngere East on 6 July.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Liu Chen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fire crews are also cleaning up after a sudden blaze at a small church in Christchurch.<\/p>\n They were called to the New Brighton building after a fire alarm went off at 2.30pm.<\/p>\n The blaze was extinguished quickly and an RNZ reporter at the scene said the exterior of the church appears undamaged.<\/p>\n Fire investigators are working to identify the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eleven fire trucks responded to a large fire at a block of two-storey units in South Auckland on Sunday. Fire and Emergency (FENZ) crews were called to the blaze on Hain Avenue in M\u0101ngere East at 12.29pm. A FENZ spokesperson said approximately half of the units in the block were on fire.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Facebook \/ I Love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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