Six people were taken to hospital last night after they escaped the fierce fire that destroyed the wooden, three-storey house on Clifton Terrace in the seaside suburb of Sumner. Mr Thomas went to visit the people who escaped the fire in hospital late this morning. The large wooden house with spectacular beach views was listed on Airbnb as suitable for groups of up to eight people. It was not clear from that distance which house was ablaze but it appeared to be an architecturally designed, angular home, she said. It's a wooden house so it went up in flames in half an hour or so," the neighbour said.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 10, 2017 20:48 UTC