House ablaze in Waipukurau as firefighters fight multiple fires

A fire and emergency services spokesman said that crews arrived at the Middleton Rd, Waipukurau property at 9.30am and didn't manage to get fire under control until 10.40am. Photo / Supplied

Firefighters have managed to extinguish a house fire in Waipukurau which took over an hour to get under control.

A fire and emergency services spokesman said that crews arrived at the Middleton Rd property at 9.30am and didn't manage to get fire under control until 10.40am.

He said that the property was ablaze on arrival and required three fire trucks and a tanker from the Tamatea Volunteer Fire Brigade to quell.

An eyewitness who lives a couple of kilometres away from the house said he was only notified of the fire after the owner of the house messaged the community through a Facebook page set up during Covid-19.

"We went straight away but by the time we got their it was already up in flames with firefighters already on the scene," he said.

"All we could do was help them out as best we can with anything they needed."

An investigation is now under way to find the cause but photos from the scene suggested the fire was at its strongest in the garage. No one was injured.

Firefighters started their morning in Hawke's Bay fighting a shed fire at a Te Awanga holiday park.

The spokesman said crews were called early Monday morning to a holiday park on Kuku St after reports of a small shed fire.

Firefighters fought the blaze for close to an hour, from 3.20am to 4.10am.

No one was injured in the blaze, which isn't considered suspicious, and no further damage was done to the rest of the holiday park, the spokesman said.