A Fire and Emergency hazmat unit was sent from Whanganui to the house on Saturday. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
An elderly couple remain in hospital, after emergency services responded to a gas leak at a Manawatū home.
Emergency services were called to the single-storey house in Feilding shortly before 9.30am Saturday, and a Hato Hone St John spokesperson said four patients were assessed and treated by its crews.
Feilding volunteer brigade chief fire officer Bradley Shanks said both occupants of the house in Huffington Place were taken to hospital.
One was found unconscious and remained in a serious condition on Saturday evening.
The other - whom Hato Hone said earlier was in a moderate condition when taken to hospital - was still in a moderate condition by Saturday evening.
Shanks said two bystanders - one a relative and the other a neighbour - raised the alarm, and were also treated by paramedics for minor injuries, after going into the house.
Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ) said crews were at the scene for more than six hours and fire crews had turned off LPG cylinders attached to the house.
A hazmat unit "with a super-sensitive gas detector" was deployed to the house from Whanganui, a FENZ spokesperson said.
It arrived late morning, and was used to check gas levels and ventilate the property.
On Saturday evening, Shanks said investigators were yet to determine the cause of the leak, but they had ruled out the LPG cylinders attached to the house as the cause and were now looking at other options.
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