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Fire-ravaged convention centre: Will it get a redesigned roof?
"Roof design and specifications were compliant" - Ross Taylor, Fletcher Building CEO.
"Roof design and specifications were compliant" - Ross Taylor, Fletcher Building CEO.
Fire teams have battled a tricky electrical blaze today.
Wayne Bridge-Smith was lying in bed when he heard glass smashing at his neighbour's place.
Multiple fire crews are attending an apartment fire in the Central Auckland suburb of Freeman's Bay. Video / Supplied
The early morning blaze broke out just before 6am.
The house was well-ablaze when Fire and Emergency New Zealand arrived.
A truck driver has been critically injured in a crash on SH23 in Waikato this morning.
A man was flown to Wellington Hospital after an oil explosion.
The Rydges Auckland hotel, a managed isolation facility, has been evacuated this morning.
It was the second devastating house fire in the city in a week.
A crash has occurred on SH2
Constable's bravery cited in neighbour's letter to police.
Resident had operated a fitness business from the property's garage.
Two people have been taken to hospital with critical and serious injuries.
Firefighters battled a large blaze in the East Auckland house. Video / Michael Rowse
Car and concrete truck collide near Otautau, leaving one person critical, truck toppled.
The firefighters' union claims Auckland's ageing fire trucks are not up to the job.
The first home was razed by fire which spewed smoke and yellow flames into the night sky.
Fires continue to rage in Mackenzie Basin after consuming 5500 hectares.
Investigators say the fire was 'of a scale rarely experienced in this country'.
Residents readied to picked over what remains after up to 40 homes destroyed or damaged.
The incident happened before 9am on the busy arterial route Lake Rd.
'I'm trying to find a pair of undies; I have my phone and clothes on my back.'
Smoke billowing from CBD office building, traffic is being re-routed.
Retired farmland and rampant wilding pines make a "huge" stockpile of fire-ready fuel.
Emergency services were alerted to the fire in Northland at 12.45pm today.
Eleven helicopters and seven ground crews battling huge Canterbury fire.
Fire crews are currently fighting a large fire burning through pine forestry on Mckenzie Road, Livingstone. Video / Rebecca Ryan / ODT
PM Jacinda Ardern and Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare comment on the Lake Ohau fires that have destroyed dozens of homes. Video / Dean Purcell