A house was destroyed and six people injured in a blast that was felt across the city.

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The house was already well alight when fire teams arrived.

One person is being treated for smoke inhalation.

Firefighters from Willowbank were called to Castle St at 10.55pm.

Eight crews and around 32 firefighters were at the fire on Belmont Rd.

An explosion was heard at the cordon shortly after 9.30am.

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Emergency services were called to the accident about 32km north of Lake Taupo.

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Hot embers picked up by the wind started the blaze.

The boy woke up in the morning in a room covered 'in a layer of black soot'.

The elderly man had lived alone in the boardinghouse for many years, its owner said.

The blaze was on the second level of a three-storey guesthouse on Moa St.

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Fire investigator has arrived to determine cause of the blaze.

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The fire started just before 11.30am at a property on Carlie St.

Seven fire trucks are at the house fire near the Tararua Forest Park.

One of the people killed in the crash was a year 12 pupil who had recently left school.

Emergency services were called to the property on Venus Street shortly after 8 o'clock.