A “well alight” house blaze in Dunedin has been contained by fire crews, as two people have been taken to hospital in moderate conditions.<\/p>\n
Four fire trucks and an aerial appliance responded to the scene of the fire in Concord about 10.50am today.<\/p>\n
A Fire and Emergency NZ spokeswoman said the house was “well alight” when crews arrived.<\/p>\n
By 11.30am, the fire was contained although not fully extinguished.<\/p>\n
No-one was reported as having been in the house when the fire started.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Hato Hone St John spokesman said\u00a0one ambulance and one rapid response vehicle responded to the fire.<\/p>\n
“Two patients were assessed at the scene and both are being transported to Dunedin Hospital in a moderate condition,” he said.<\/p>\n
Police helped to manage “enthusiastic bystanders who were just making our job problematic”, she said.<\/p>\n
The Fenz spokeswoman said the blaze was not flagged as suspicious but a fire investigator had arrived to scene to establish a cause.<\/p>\n
A witness said there had been large amounts of smoke coming from the house.<\/p>\n
There were a lot of bystanders and firefighters had to push them back from the scene to get them away from the clouds of smoke, the witness said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A “well alight” house blaze in Dunedin has been contained by fire crews, as two people have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-309535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309535","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=309535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}