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Emergency services were called to the Loafers Lodge hostel at about 12:30 am after a fire was reported on the third floor of the four-storey building.Wellington City Council spokesman Richard MacLean said it was helping about 50 people who had escaped the fire and were now at an emergency center the council had set up at a local track that had showers and other facilities. He said there were a number of elderly people it was helping who had escaped with only the pyjamas they were wearing. “A lot are clearly shaken and bewildered about what happened,” Pyatt said.
