Three people are dead after a house fire in South Auckland.
Fire Service Northern shift manager Scott Osmond said six people were in the Flat Bush home when the fire broke out at 3.25am.
Three people were rescued and have been taken to Middlemore Hospital.
One is in a critical condition.
Radio NZ is reporting that those killed were all members of the same family.
Mr Osmond said the two-storey Plantation Ave property was engulfed by fire when crews arrived within minutes of the alarm being raised.
He said firefighters at the scene were told people were inside the home and mounted a search and rescue operation.
"There were multiple calls to the fire. We got there within five minutes and the house was well involved in fire," he said.
"We had information that people were in the house and unfortunately it turned out there was."
Firefighters found three people dead in the house and a further three with injuries.
The home is a recently built property in a new subdivision and was sold earlier this year.
It was not clear if those inside the home were related.
Investigations were under way.