Seven appliances responded to a residential unit fire at Summerset in the Sun retirement village in Stoke on Friday night.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) spokesperson, Daryl Ball, says it responded to the "fully involved" property fire just before 10:30pm on 8 December.
He says the unit was unoccupied.
"We had three appliances from the Nelson brigade, two from Richmond and two from Stoke... at the peak of [the fire] we had five appliances respond," he says.
"There were a couple of flare-ups through the night, but they were winding down the scene 20 minutes after midnight.
"The last appliance to respond went to the scene at about 1:45am [on 9 December] just to make sure everything was all out."
Daryl says an investigation into the cause of the blaze was ongoing.
