UPDATE 5.45pm: A mobility scooter caught fire while parked under a carport in central Tauranga tonight.
A neighbour noticed the fire and called fire fighters while another neighbour, and volunteer fire fighter, dampened the flames with the garden hose, Tauranga senior station officer Kevin Cowper said.
The mobililty scooter was ruined but the fire did not spread to the carport, he said.
The cause of the fire was unknown. Earlier reports from a fire service spokesman said it was a motorbike on fire.
EARLIER: A motorbike has caught fire in a garage in central Tauranga.