Emergency services are responding to a house fire that has sent smoke billowing over Auckland's Onehunga this morning.
Fire and Emergency NZ responded to the blaze on Trafalgar St with crews from across Auckland at around 7.20am on Friday.
"We have 12 appliances in attendance and are still working to contain and extinguish the fire," a spokesperson said.
Crews from Onehunga, Ellerslie, Mount Roskill, Balmoral, Auckland City, Otara, Remuera, Mangere, Avondale, Parnell, Otahuhu, and Papatoetoe stations were on scene.
The house fire broke out in Auckland's Onehunga on Friday. (Source: Supplied)
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Footage captured by 1News show police, firefighters and ambulances on scene, with crews spraying water onto the smoking roof of the house.
St John said it had an operations manager, ambulance and two rapid response vehicles on the scene.
Auckland Transport said Trafalgar St was closed in both directions, with routes 67A and 67B buses travelling towards the city being diverted via Pah Rd, Mt Albert Rd and Manukau Rd.
Services heading away from the city were detouring via Manukau Rd, Mt Albert Rd and Pah Rd before continuing along Queenstown Rd.
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