At least one person injured in New Plymouth house fire on Oranga St
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Pretoria Gordon / RNZ
At least one person has been injured in a house fire in New Plymouth overnight.
Emergency services were called to the single-storey house on Oranga Street just before 11pm on Wednesday.
Fire and Emergency shift manager Belinda Beets said the blaze was initially reported as a bedroom fire, however, firefighters found it "well-involved" upon arrival.
It was unclear whether everyone had escaped the fire, Beets said, because "people kept going back into the house, so we weren't sure if everyone was out or not".
One young person (age unknown) has been injured with burns to their hands.
Firefighters remained at the scene in the early hours of Thursday, trying to extinguish the flames. Salvaging work was likely to follow, Beets said.
Fire investigators, ambulance and police were also in attendance, but it was too early to know whether the blaze was suspicious.
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