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Six fire trucks sent to house fire in Dunedin

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A Dunedin resident supplied this picture of the house fire in Dunedin's Lookout Point. (Source: Supplied)

A fire has broken out at a house in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham this afternoon.

Images sent to 1News show a structure with orange flames billowing out of the side, and a thick plume of black smoke rising into the air.

Fire and Emergency NZ said it received a report of a house fire in Lookout Point at around 12.40pm, initially responding with four crews from Ravenbourne, Brighton, Port Chalmers and Outram.

Smoke billows from a house fire in Dunedin's Caversham. (Source: Chimere Andrews)

"When crews arrived, they found the building well involved in fire," a Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said.

"Another two trucks were sent from Lookout Point and Roslyn."

Police and St John have been contacted for comment.

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