Nine residents were being supervised by New Zealand’s corrections agency.
Murray Edridge, the head of the Wellington City Mission, told Radio New Zealand said that clients of the charitable organisation were among those who lived at the hostel. The hostel in Newtown – near central Wellington – was home to a mix of short- and long-term tenants, including workers at the nearby hospital. The fire service earlier said there were no sprinklers in the building – it was not legally required to have them – and there have been conflicting reports about when and whether alarms sounded at the time the blaze began. Entry had not been possible earlier due to concerns about the building’s safety, and the level of contaminants searchers are exposed to is being monitored, he added.
Small groups of police officers entered the charred hostel building for the first time on Wednesday afternoon to begin a scene examination, Bennett said. Some residents left their phones in their rooms when they fled.
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Some jumped from windows of the four-storey building, and five were rescued from the roof before the fire was brought under control at about 6am.īennett said not everyone who was at the hostel had registered themselves as safe with the authorities, and urged those who escaped the building to contact the police.
The fire broke out at 12.25am on Tuesday, prompting dozens of residents of the accommodation, called Loafers Lodge, to flee their beds.
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