A blaze at a restaurant in a West Auckland shopping mall has now been extinguished.
Firefighters rushed to LynnMall just after 7pm tonight after a fire was reported.
The roof of the Goode Brothers restaurant, in the Brickworks part of the mall that houses restaurants and a movie theatre, was believed to have been alight.
Gloria Liu, a staff member at Hansan restaurant in the Brickworks, said the nearby Goode Brothers restaurant had been on fire, but the blaze had now been extinguished.
Customers were still outside the restaurant after the fire had been put out, waiting for firefighters to give the all clear, she said.
Northern fire communications shift manager Megan Ruru said seven fire engines had been dispatched to Lynn Mall.