New Zealand / Emergency Services

Explosion at Papatoetoe industrial site

18:03 pm on 16 March 2024

Thirty firefighters, five fire trucks, a ladder truck and specialist hazardous materials unit, extinguished the blaze. Photo: RNZ / Diego Opatowski

One person has been injured in an explosion at an industrial site in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe.

Fire and Emergency was alerted at around 2pm on Saturday a bank of gas cylinders and a forklift were on fire.

Thirty firefighters, five fire trucks, a ladder truck and specialist hazardous materials unit extinguished the blaze.

It was not yet known how seriously injured the person was.

The fire was not being treated as suspicious.