Fire crews were called to an address on Awaroa Road, Helensville in the early hours of Thursday morning following reports of a house ablaze with one person unaccounted for. Source: NZ Newswire
An elderly woman has died in a fire that gutted a Helensville house in the early hours of this morning.
Fire crews were called to the two-storey house on Awaroa Rd shortly after midnight and arrived to find it engulfed in flames, assistant area commander John Booth said.
"The secondlevel was burning very fiercely."
Fire crews were told someone was in the house unable to get out, but by the time emergency service workers were able to get inside, the woman had died, Booth said.
An elderly man made it out of the house alive and ambulance staff treated him for smoke inhalation.
