Two students were forced to flee their flat yesterday morning after a fire broke out in the fuse box.
Three occupants were also evacuated from the adjoining basement-level flat in Park St, North Dunedin.
One of the students was in the shower at the time. Her flatmate alerted her and firefighters after seeing the fuse box on fire.
''I was coming around the corner in the hallway, [flatmate] Clare [McInerney-Heather] was in the shower, and I just saw the fuse box was crackling and smoking, so I was like 'Oh my God, Clare' and yelled at her to get out,'' Emily Rhoades said.
''There were flames coming out of it.