A person is dead after a crash involving a car and motorbike on Harris Rd in Huntly, taking the Queen's Birthday Weekend road toll to eight.

Police, firefighters and ambulance were called to Manor Park, Lower Hutt after the incident shortly after 6pm.

A police spokesman said no one was in the car when it was removed from the water.

More than 3200 residential fires were recorded last year -- up from 2635 in 2011.

One person was treated for smoke inhalation late tonight after a fire in Sandringham, Auckland.

Two vehicles collided just before 12.40pm today on State Highway 31, Tihiroa, north of Otorohanga.

A 4-year-old girl who had gone missing from a rural property in Northland has been found alive and well.

A fire service spokeswoman said the residents of the home on Shetland St were safely at a neighbour's house.

A man in his 40s was flown to hospital in a serious condition after receiving burns to his face, arms, chest, hands and throat in Helensville today.

A 22-year-old male was flown to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition after he drove his ute into a tree in South Head, on the Kaipara Harbour.

Emergency services were called to a house in Strathmore Ave, Strathmore Park at 1.15pm.

Police are investigating a technical fault with the 111 system which prevented people from reaching emergency services in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Four people were killed in three separate road incidents around the country yesterday.

A woman died after a car and ute collided in Upper Hutt this evening.

Police confirmed two cars were involved in the collision on State Highway 10, at Puketona Junction, this evening.

Firefighters are battling a vegetation blaze close to houses near Christchurch this evening.

A child has been burned after a barbecue exploded in west Auckland this afternoon.

Emergency services were called to the scene at the intersection of Margaret St and Tirau St in Putaruru at 8pm.

Two people are dead and five others have been injured in a two-car smash near Twizel in the South Island tonight.

A Fire Service spokesman said firefighters from Invercargill Station were called to a house fire in Ettrick St at 5.40pm.

The first incident involved a nine-year-old boy who came off his motorcycle at a southern Waikato motocross event.

One person has died after the campervan they were travelling in caught fire in an accident on a Matamata Road.

A woman has been flown to hospital by helicopter after she was injured in a head-on crash north of Wellington this afternoon.

The vehicles collided at the intersection of Swanson Rd and Metcalfe Rd, Swanson, about 1.45pm.

The car flipped on State Highway 30 near Lake Rotoiti Forest.

Emergency services were called to the McMeeking Rd property shortly before 3.30pm.

In emergency situations, Aucklanders want WiFi internet restored before water, a survey revealed.

A fire broke out just before 3.30 this morning in a cafe on the ground floor of the Ocean Breeze apartments in Browns Bay.

Lucy Knight - the good samaritan who almost lost her life after going to the aid of a woman being mugged in Auckland - is the new face of St John Ambulance’s annual appeal.