Firefighters spent about four hours at a house fire in Welcome Bay yesterday.
Welcome Bay residents reported seeing thick, black smoke coming from a home on Flinders Place just before 4.30pm.
A Northern Fire Communications spokesman said it received multiple calls from people in the area saying the house was "well-involved" in flames.
Two fire crews from Greerton and one from Tauranga were called to the scene.
The spokesman said the last fire truck left the scene about four hours later at 8.30pm.