UPDATED 11:30AM: Firefighters are busy investigating the cause of a kitchen fire in a house on Glenmonarch Place in Pyes Pa.

Brigades from Greerton and Tauranga were called to the home after a neighbour phoned the fire service about 11am.

A firefighter at the home on Glenmonarch Place. Photos: Bruce Barnard.

Tauranga Fire Brigade senior station officer Mark Keller says when firefighters arrived smoke was pouring from the roof and the kitchen was in flames.

Seven firefighters wearing breathing apparatus managed to extinguish the fire, which has gutted the kitchen, he says.

Mark believes a single elderly woman lives at the house. She was not home at the time.

"We are waiting for her to return."

A reporter at the scene says firefighters are busy trying to find the cause of the fire.

Earlier:

Firefighters are at the scene of a house fire in Pyes Pa this morning.

Northern Fire Communications shift manager Steve Smith says the call came in at about 10.47am to the house fire on Glenmonarch Place.

'We have three fire trucks there and five guys in breathing apparatuses.

'There are no reports of anyone being trapped and no reports of injuries.”

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