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A house fire on the main street of the Wairarapa town of Carterton has been put out.
Fire services were called to the blaze on High Street south just after 11am today and five appliances had extinguished the flames by 12.20pm.
Central fire communications shift manager Andrew Tollison said no one was in the house, and there were no reported injuries .
A standby fire crew were still at the scene investigating the cause of the fire, Mr Tollison said.
- NZPA