Far North house fire: Locals desperately tried to save woman who died
4 May, 2021 05:01 PM
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Fire investigators Jason Goffin, left, and Gary Beer search the ashes of the Taemaro Bay home with help from neighbour Gary Watson. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Fire investigators Jason Goffin, left, and Gary Beer search the ashes of the Taemaro Bay home with help from neighbour Gary Watson. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
Two Far North men are being hailed as heroes in their isolated coastal community after dragging a kuia from a burning home and performing CPR until emergency services arrived.
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A person has died in a house fire in Northland.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) attended the blaze in Taemaro Rd, Hihi just after 10pm on Monday.
A FENZ spokesperson said before crews arrived, the only person in the house was pulled out by neighbours.
CPR was done - but they could not be revived and died at the scene, the spokesperson said.
A fire investigator will attend the scene on Tuesday morning but it is not being treated as suspicious.
It was the third fatal house fire in New Zealand on Monday. Earlier, two women died in separate blazes - one in the Bay of Plenty and the other in Hunterville.