Jeremy Lodder was working at a construction site nearby when he noticed a fire on the other side of the road.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n He stopped working and leapt into action.<\/p>\n “I just thought it was a burn off, but it was a strange place for it in the middle of the city. I realised it was pretty close to the brick walls and once I saw that, I stopped my machine that I was using, told the other boys to stop, talked to the supervisor who was here [and] told him to call the fire brigade,” Lodder said.<\/p>\n “… knocked on the doors, found one guy in there, got him out, while the house was on fire.”<\/p>\n Lodder said he’s seen house fires before and knows how fast they can spread.<\/p>\n “That’s why as soon as I saw it I jumped out [and] stopped my gear.”<\/p>\n Workers were at a construction site nearby when they saw the fire.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fire and Emergency (FENZ) Senior Station Officer Michael Manning told RNZ there were multiple calls just after 10am.<\/p>\n “We got here within a couple of minutes and the rear of the house was well involved in fire and the neighbouring house was also starting to catch fire,” he said.<\/p>\n He said the first home has extensive damage, but the neighbour’s home has been spared and has only scorch marks.<\/p>\n “The crews did an excellent job stopping the fire moving through that property,” he said.<\/p>\n Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Manning said the police were called while there were initial concerns for the whereabouts of the person at the home and whether they were hurt or missing.<\/p>\n “He’s now been located and is speaking with our fire investigators and police,” Manning said.<\/p>\n Firefighters at the scene of the fire in Ponsonby.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Six fire trucks and more than 20 crew were called in.<\/p>\n Manning said it had been a busy morning for Auckland fire crews. They responded to the Ponsonby fire fresh after attending a fire on Hobson Street in the CBD.<\/p>\n “We had just recommissioned from that when this job came in,” he said.<\/p>\n Crews are using a high-reach ladder truck from Wellington to take the roof off and put out the remaining pockets of fire,” Manning said.<\/p>\n ~ RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A construction worker has described pulling someone from a burning house in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby. A number of firefighters are at the scene on Tawariki Street, with crews using an aerial crane to try contain the fire on Thursday. Jeremy Lodder was working at a construction site nearby when he noticed a fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859","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=16859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16861,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859\/revisions\/16861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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