\u201cIt\u2019s happening right now. We can still hear all the sirens and there are tonnes of emergency services.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still lots of smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Northern fire communications shift manager Ryan Geen confirmed they received multiple calls alerting them to the blaze just before 5pm.<\/p>\n
He said three fire crews from around the North Shore were immediately sent and were on the scene within five minutes of the first call.<\/p>\n
Another two fire crews have since been sent to the blaze, which had reached second-alarm severity by about 5.30pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fire is still not contained, but we don\u2019t have any injuries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Asked if anyone was inside the house when the fire broke out, Geen said he had not been told that information yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve confirmed that all people are out.\u201d<\/p>\n
A fire investigator has been called to the scene, Geen said, and it was too early to say what the cause may have been.<\/p>\n
It is understood traffic congestion is building in the area and locals are being urged to avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor obvious reasons, we\u2019d want people to stay away from the Kaip\u0101tiki Rd Glenfield Rd intersection due to the smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police are also at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s happening right now. We can still hear all the sirens and there are tonnes of emergency services.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3952,3221,4996,23364,2079,7572,90342,10053,78,3242,111,43,139,529,69,90,18484],"class_list":["post-181436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-aucklands","tag-battling","tag-blaze","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-glenfield","tag-house","tag-in","tag-large","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-shore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}