Apartment fire in Grafton

Photo / Dan Wilson

Firefighters are battling a blaze at an apartment building in the central Auckland suburb of Grafton.

The fire was reported at Longview Apartments on Whitaker Place, parallel to the north western motorway.

A northern fire communications spokesman told nzherald.co.nz there had been a fire in a tenth floor kitchen.

Sprinklers extinguished the blaze and were checking the building.

- NZPA