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Emergency services were called to the fire on a boat at a wharf in Deep Water Basin in Milford Sound just after 4am on Monday. (File photo).
A helicopter has been used to help get fire crews to a blaze on a fishing boat in Milford Sound.
Emergency services were called to the fire on a boat at a wharf in Deep Water Basin just after 4am on Monday.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokeswoman Lyn Crosson said the boat was fully ablaze when a crew from Milford Sound arrived.
She said a second crew from Te Anau had been called in but was having trouble getting to the fire because a slip had closed a section of State Highway 94, which is the main road between Te Anau and Milford.
They were instead flown by helicopter to the blaze.
Crosson said early reports had suggested the fire had caused several gas bottles on the boat to explode.
It was unclear how large the fishing boat was but it was expected to have been “destroyed” in the blaze, she said.
Crews were still working to extinguish the fire shortly before 8am.
No one was on board at the time the fire broke out. The cause of the blaze was not yet known but was not being treated as suspicious, she said.
A St John Ambulance spokesperson said the organisation had not been called to attend the fire.
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