Pukehina volunteer fire fighters drove out of their patch to attend a fire at a rural road works site today.
The crew were called to the intersection of Pikowai Rd and Campbell Rd, inland from the Matata straights.
Chief fire officer Errol Watts said the crew were called to a
road grader fire about 9.50am.
"It was a road works area where a gang of guys were putting a new seal on the road,'' he said.
The fire was reasonably small and would have caused a bit of damage to the electrical wiring of the road grader, which Mr Watts said was "pretty large''.