A firefighter plucked a man from the roof of a central Dunedin building after a couch caught fire, filling the upper floors with acrid smoke. The cause of the blaze remained unclear yesterday afternoon as police prepared to interview people to determine how the couch caught alight. A firefighter rescues a man from the roof of a building after a flaming couch filled the upper floors with choking smoke yesterday. The couch was well alight, and due to its modern construction of polyurethane foam was burning intensely, Mr Torrance said. New Zealand School of Tourism Dunedin Campus manager Graham Weatherly said nobody was in the "trainer lunchroom'' at the time and the fire was quickly extinguished.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 20, 2019 16:33 UTC