Firefighters attend a blaze in Ōtara this evening. Photo / Supplied
Firefighters are responding to a large blaze in the Auckland suburb of Ōtara this evening.
The fire is burning in an abandoned building on Everitt Rd.
Photos on social media show thick dark smoke coming from the burning structure.
Local store owner Sanjay Patel said emergency services are on the scene.
He could smell the smoke from his store.
”I don’t even know how long it would have been burning, I looked outside and I could see smoke coming out of the building, I see there’s still smoke coming out right now,” he said.
”Cops, fire brigade everyone’s here, there’s so many of them,” Patel said.
Police said Fire and Emergency NZ (Fenz) are the main agency responding to the incident.
Fenz said they received multiple calls just before 5pm.
Four fire trucks are at the scene fighting the blaze.
The fire has taken hold in a 45m-by-10m abandoned building.
No one needed to be rescued.
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