Crews have extinguished a fire at a house in the Dunedin suburb of Concord. Firefighters are finishing up after battling a blaze in Mulford St after the fire was reported at 8.37am today, a Fire Service spokesman said. The fire was reported initially as a laundry fire but the cause of the blaze was unclear, the spokesman said. Appliances from Lookout Point and St Kilda responded to the blaze and called for back-up after seeing the fire from a distance, he said. Smoke shrouded the surrounding suburb.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 27, 2016 20:02 UTC