One person injured as Tolaga Bay house collapses in fire

The house fire is on Paremata Branch Rd in Tolaga Bay. Image / Google

A person has been injured in an East Coast house fire.

Fire Service central communications shift manager Murray Dunbar said three fire crews and a tanker were called out to the Tolaga Bay house fire at 2.25pm. He believed the house was fully involved. When they arrived it had collapsed.

A resource was there providing medical attention, Dunbar said. The person has now been transported to hospital.