Crews have put out a vegetation fire near Queenstown after fielding multiple calls today.
A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said crews responded to multiple calls about a vegetation fire near Lake Hayes shortly before 3pm.
Six crews from Frankton, Arrowtown and Queenstown attended.
The blaze had since been extinguished, with crews dampening the hotspots, but had been well-involved at the time.
A fire investigator was in attendance and the cause was yet to be established, the spokesman said.
The fire, on a hillside between Lake Hayes Estate and Shotover Country, had been "really massive" and moving quickly.
"It's quite overwhelming, obviously, of what recently happened in Los Angeles," he said.
"I can't imagine that happening in Queenstown currently, since it's quite blazing hot and it's getting quite windy now.
"Imagining that happening here is quite tragic."
