Police and fire crews are investigating after a car was found smouldering on a reserve in the eastern suburbs of Rotorua.
Emergency services were called to Pohutukawa Dr just after 10am today.
A Fire Northern Communications spokesman said emergency services had been called after reports of a car on fire near the street.
A Rotorua Daily Post reporter and photographer at the scene said the car was found enclosed in some shrubbery on a reserve or wasteland area off Pohutukawa Dr.
It looked as though the car had been smouldering for some time, they said.
A police officer at the scene said he was unable to comment as the matter was under investigation.