The blaze has closed part of Main Street between Linden Avenue and McLellan Street.

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12 Dec: Surf lifesavers are urging Aucklanders to be safe in the water, following four rescues and two people losing their lives in one day

12 Dec: Two aircraft - including an Air New Zealand flight - came within 41 seconds of a head-on collision over Northland

12 Dec: Police are investigating an unexplained death in West Auckland's Ranui

11 Dec: Kapiti's Coastguard has been involved in two life-saving rescues in the space of 24 hours

11 Dec: The death of a man at Auckland's Muriwai Beach earlier this year has brought attention to a danger not immediately obvious to some beachgoers

11 Dec: Police are asking for the public's help, to find a missing woman and her three children aged one, 10 and 12

11 Dec: Hamilton Police have located a seven-year-old boy, reported missing from Deanwell last night

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