Emergency services were called to Dunedin's Great King Street just after midday, with reports of a strong smell.

People have since been allowed back inside.

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Other Accident and Emergency News

21 Feb: Christchuch's Curletts Road - State Highway 73 has reopened after a serious early morning crash

21 Feb: A busy Christchurch intersection is shut, as emergency services respond to a crash involving a car and motorbike

20 Feb: A person has died at a property on Grassmere Street in Christchurch's Papanui

20 Feb: Five people have been injured, including two volunteer firefighters, when a portable home's verandah collapsed in rural Hawke's Bay

20 Feb: Two people have been taken to hospital after a boat's flipped in Christchurch's Lyttelton Harbour

20 Feb: One person has died in a single-car crash on State Highway 10 in the Bay of Plenty

20 Feb: Police say cannabis was being grown in a home significantly damaged by fire in West Auckland

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