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<\/p>\nOne person has died in an Auckland house fire last night.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to a home on Forest Hill Rd in Henderson at around 8.40pm.<\/p>\n
A scene guard was placed on the property overnight, Acting Detective Senior Sergeant James Kim said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Police will be carrying out a scene examination at the house today, including working with fire investigators.”<\/p>\n
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Fire crews battled a house fire in Auckland’s Henderson on Saturday night. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Ten crews from Henderson, Te Atat\u016b, Glen Eden, Titrangi, \u014ctara, and Mt Roskill responded to the blaze, according to a Fire and Emergency spokesperson. <\/p>\n
“On arrival crews found the house well ablaze,” they said.<\/p>\n
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A person has died in a house fire in West Auckland Saturday night. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
The fire was contained just before 10pm. <\/p>\n
“The cause of the fire remains unexplained at this early stage,” Kim said.<\/p>\n
Members of the community may see an increased police presence while an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n
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Investigations are underway after a fatal house fire in West Auckland. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
‘Whole house gone in seconds’ – witness<\/p>\n
The blaze engulfed the dwelling in Henderson in seconds, a witness said. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Neighbour Manuel Fisiiahi told 1News he saw the blaze rip through the property within seconds.<\/p>\n
“The house was gone in seconds. First, it was the roof, the chimney, and then within seconds, the whole house was just engulfed of flames.”<\/p>\n
He said seven others tried to help, including other neighbours and passing motorists.<\/p>\n
“Quite a lot of us went in to see if we can open the front door, and we couldn’t open it. Flames just came out. <\/p>\n
“We had to come back out onto the footpath, otherwise we would have died too.”<\/p>\n
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Neighbouring witness Manuel Fisiiahi said the house was gone in seconds. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
He said no one replied when they tried to call out.<\/p>\n
“We were saying, is there anybody in the house? Is there anybody there? Nobody was saying anything. No one was reacting.”<\/p>\n
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A witness said the house was engulfed in flames within seconds. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Fisiiahi said the neighbourhood “will have a lot of sadness” after hearing of their neighbour’s death.<\/p>\n
“We tried our hardest, though, but nothing else that we could do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died in an Auckland house fire last night. Emergency services were called to a home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-584912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584912","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=584912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}