One person has been detained by police and another treated by ambulance after a home caught fire in Panmure around 12:35am. Video / NZ Herald
A person has been found dead in an Auckland shed after it caught fire last night.
Fire and Emergency assistant commander Chris Delfos said the shed, in Ōtāhuhu, appeared to be a sleepout.
“Crews arrived and were faced with a well-involved, medium-sized shed,” he said.
“We did not have anyindication that there were persons trapped in the building, and while the crews were extinguishing the fire, they unfortunately found the deceased.”
Police and fire investigators were working to find the cause of a fatal sleepout fire in Ōtāhuhu last night. Photo / Hayden Woodward
Specialist fire investigators and police were looking at where and how the fire started, Delfos said.
He urged people to check their smoke alarms and make sure they have an escape plan “so these sort of things don’t happen”.
Fire and Emergency northern shift manager Garreth Lewis said multiple calls were received just before 9pm about the fire and two crews had been sent to the scene.
Lewis said just after 11pm, crews were then called to another house fire in Panmure, east Auckland.
They arrived to find the 120sq m house “well involved in fire“.
The Panmure house was destroyed in the blaze, which was reported around 11pm. Photo / Hayden Woodward
Photos taken at the scene show a brick and tile single-storey house with the entire roof on fire, with the blaze eventually leaving the home gutted.
A Herald photographer said as crews battled the Panmure blaze, one of the occupants tried to run back into the house but was stopped.
Police detained and removed her from the scene in handcuffs, he said.
Another occupant from the fire was being treated on the ground by St John Ambulance staff as neighbours looked on while crews battled the blaze.
Lewis said all persons at the Panmure fire were accounted for. Three fire engines and one command unit attended the scene, and the fire was extinguished, with a fire investigator attending the scene.
A woman was taken away in handcuffs after attempting to run back into the Panmure house. Photo / Hayden Woodward
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