A fire in a laundry attached to the garage of a Waipapa house may have started in the clothes drier.
The tenant of the Mawson Ave house said she was in a room at the opposite side of the building when she heard a bang and then smelled smoke at about 2.30pm yesterday.The woman said the drier had been on for the first time since she emptied the lint container in it two days earlier.
She was the only person home at the time.
As she stood out on the street watching firefighters bring the fire under control, she worried about her two cats which were shut in her bedroom.
Two fire appliances and a water truck attended and quickly brought the fire under control after connecting to a nearby water supply.