A police spokesperson says they were called to a fire on Upton Street just after 11.30 last night.

It's the third fire of the type in recent times - the others at nearby Albert Town, and along the Lindis Pass.

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08 Oct: A person's seriously injured after being trapped in a single-vehicle crash near North Canterbury's Cheviot - with State Highway One blocked

08 Oct: A search and rescue mission continues for a 36-year-old man missing in Rotorua since September 30

08 Oct: A coroner's issued urgent recommendations - over the death in the Far North of a six-year-old restrained by a centre lap belt

07 Oct: Rescuers pull children from the rubble of Indonesian boarding school collapse

07 Oct: An investigation's begun into the death of a baby girl in Wairarapa last Thursday

07 Oct: A man's been charged following yesterday's three-hour stand-off in Auckland's Flat Bush, that saw a Police officer shot and injured

07 Oct: Hundreds rescued from Mount Everest blizzard as another hiker dies from exposure

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