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Residents at an Invercargill rest home were evacuated early today after an electrical fire.
Night shift staff at Abbotsleigh Village on Ruru Street alerted the Fire Service at 4.31am after they noticed smoke coming from a light fitting in the hallway.
Residents in the immediate vicinity were evacuated.
Three appliances and 12 officers attended, extinguishing a small fire burning in ceiling tiles around the light fitting.
No one was injured.
- NZPA
