A pot of oil on a stove that overheated set fire to the kitchen and dining room of a house in Gladstone Road on Friday night. Fire and Emergency NZ sent two appliances to the home near the Wellington Street corner at around 9pm that evening. 'The fire had spread from the kitchen and dining room into the roof space by the time we got there,' a senior firefighter said. Fire crews were able to stop the fire spreading. 'We would call it a good save.' The dining room and kitchen were extensively damaged and the rest of the dwelling was smoke-damaged.

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