A scrub fire started in a gully near Lake Okareka this afternoon on a rural property.
Lake Okareka Volunteer Fire Force and Rotorua fire brigade were called to the fire which was 100 metres past Boyes Beach reserve on Millar Road.
Both appliances from Okareka station responded one of them being the rural tanker truck and one from Rotorua.
The cause of the fire is unknown.