A jury has heard the 111 call Loafers Lodge resident Liam Hockings made to emergency services on the night of the fatal Loafers Lodge fire.
Hockings was either dying during the phone call, or died shortly after it ended.
Audio and a written transcript of the call have been suppressed.
A man, whose identity is suppressed, is on trial at the High Court in Wellington charged with five counts of murder and one of arson for setting the Wellington boarding house alight in 2023.
It's not disputed he lit two fires, but the man's lawyers intend to use the defence of insanity.
Evidence from Fire and Emergency call-taker David Barker, who took the call with Hockings, was read to the court.
Barker said he was reassuring Hockings that someone was coming.
He said after a while, Hockings became unresponsive.
Barker said he stayed on the line for about 49 minutes, and then was advised to called back Hockings on his phone because it might help locate him.
He tried to call back twice but the phone did not pick up.
A jury has also seen footage of the final moments of the five men who died in the fatal Loafers Lodge fire.
CCTV footage played to the court showed four of the residents - Peter O'Sullivan, Kenneth Barnard, Michael Wahrlich, Melvin Parun and Liam Hockings - shutting the doors to their room at different times of the night.
Footage showed Liam Hockings evacuating the boarding house at the sound of an alarm about 10.47pm via a side entrance.
Detective constable Mitchell Murdoch said Hockings was the only resident out of five who died that evacuated the building after the first fire was lit.
It was extinguished by Loafers residents, before a second blaze was lit.
He waited outside the building until the fire alarm went off, then he went back upstairs to his room.
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