Papamoa fire fighters are not ruling out the possibility that two fires on Papamoa sand dunes were deliberately lit over the weekend.
Fire fighters responded to a dune fire on Saturday and then were called out again on Sunday afternoon to another similar fire.
The fire on Sunday occurred around 3pm on a 100m2 section of sand dune near Hartford Avenue, Papamoa.

Papamoa resident Keith Monnington captured this image of the fire on the sand dunes in Papamoa on Sunday, which he later sent through to SunLive.

Brent Sandford, Papamoa Volunteer Fire Brigade deputy fire chief, says it is a possibility the two fires were deliberately lit.
Thick smoke drifted across Papamoa houses when fire fighters battled the Sunday blaze.
Papamoa resident Cathy Monnington and her husband Keith live about 800 metres from the location of the Sunday fire.
The pair was on their way home when they saw the blaze and Keith immediately started taking pictures with his camera, which he later sent through to SunLive.
'As we turned the corner, I said, oh my gosh. At that stage the smoke was just going straight up, it was huge.
It was wafting straight across to the houses across the road,” says Cathy.
She says it would have been quite scary for the people who live in the houses directly across from the fire on Papamoa Beach Road.
'We lost our home a few years ago to fire and that's what we thought it was – a house fire. That's how huge the smoke was,” says Cathy.