{"id":56568,"date":"2025-10-02T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/56568\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:21:22","slug":"updated-three-in-hospital-and-two-missing-after-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/56568\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Three in hospital and two missing after house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The scene this Thursday morning in Murvale Drive, Bucklands Beach, after the fire that has severely damaged a two-storey residential property. Times photos PJ Taylor<\/p>\n

Three people have been taken to hospital and two others are \u201cunaccounted for\u201d after a destructive house fire in Bucklands Beach overnight.<\/p>\n

Counties Manukau Police have told the Eastern Times that emergency services were alerted to the blaze at the two-storey residence in Murvale Drive in the early hours of today, October 2.<\/p>\n

Counties Manukau Police CIB detective inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Va\u2019aelua says: \u201cAt around 2.30am reports were received that a property was fully ablaze.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice and Fire and Emergency NZ are at the scene with an investigation underway.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this stage we can advise that two people are currently outstanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working to establish what has occurred and urgently locate the people unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree further people have been taken to hospital with inquires ranging from serious to minor.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice will remain on scene with cordons established on Murvale Drive, between Janome Place and Jandell Crescent.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice will provide further information as it becomes available,\u201d says Va\u2019aelua.<\/p>\n

When the Eastern Times visited the scene in usually quiet Murvale Drive this Thursday morning, two fire trucks and crews and police investigators and officers were in attendance.<\/p>\n

Members of the public were asked to keep outside the cordon.<\/p>\n

A fire investigator is due to be inspecting the scene this morning.<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John has told the Times it was notified of the fire incident at 2.36am today, October 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo ambulances and one operations manager attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo patients, one in serious condition and one in moderate condition, were transported to Middlemore Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne additional patient, in minor condition, was assessed and treated at the scene \u2013 no transport required,\u201d says Hato Hone St John.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency NZ has told the Times: \u201cYou will need to contact police for further details,\u201d indicating the incident is now a police investigation.<\/p>\n

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