RNZ
Firefighters remain at the scene of a house fire north of Blenheim.
Fire and Emergency dispatched nine brigades to Spring Creek around midnight.
The house belonged to a hoarder, which a spokesperson told RNZ had "made the incident a lot more complicated".
"It took us a long time to extinguish as the fire had spread to a couple of trees, and car parts, and the like, that were in the yard.
"It went to, what we call, a fourth-alarm fire.
"We had about seven or eight pumps there at the height of the incident, plus several more water tankers."
A digger was still on site to pull apart debris, while firefighters dampened down the remaining hotspots.
No one has been injured.
This story was first published on rnz.co.nz
