Heartbreak in church community after devastating Rotorua fire.

A man was up to his nose in water after his excavator rolled into a dam and trapped him there for two hours.

Pollution experts are being called in to deal with sticky residue left in water used to fight a major fire.

Firefighters are battling a blaze that has broken out at Airborne Honey in Christchurch.

A fire that destroyed a house and car in West Auckland overnight is believed to be suspicious.

A community fundraiser for an 11-year-old girl orphaned by a fatal east Auckland house fire drew hundreds, organisers say.

Three people are treated for smoke inhalation after fire engulfs a home.

A man has been flown to hospital with multi-trauma injuries after his car collided with the back of a truck near Nelson this morning. It's

Power was cut to many parts of Northland following a large scrub fire near Whangarei late yesterday.

A helicopter was needed to help battle a scrub fire in the Bay of Islands this afternoon. A Fire Service spokeswoman said the blaze

A person has been treated for smoke inhalation following a garage fire in Pukekohe this afternoon.

Children in Levin have been risking their lives to raid a home ravaged by fire, giving the home owner more anxiety.

A Northland man has pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of arson and elected to have a jury trial. Andrew Lee Searle, 20, of Te Kopuru

The third serious house fire in Canterbury this week has badly damaged a home. Police suspect arson.

Firefighters were forced to break into a Bishopdale flat prevent a fire while the couple inside slept.

Fire has raced through native scrubland in the bed of a dried-out lake in the Far North.

Fire crews have now contained a large scrub fire south of Whangarei.

A Kaiapoi home has been extensively damaged by fire in a large blaze overnight.

A fire near Piha Beach Piha Beach on Auckland's West Coast has been extinguished.

Plea after man punched Police are appealing for information after an 18-year-old was punched in the neck as he worked on his tablet

A fire at a house in Hamilton was started by a group of "drunk hooligans", according to the Fire Service.

A fire investigator will be looking into the cause of a house fire in Dargaville, in Northland, today.

Police would like to speak to two young men who stopped to assist as they were driving past the house and saw flames.

A large bin burst into flames on a busy street in Auckland CBD this afternoon.

Fire races through a New Lynn boarding house.

Fire crews won't be leaving the scene of a devastating bushfire on the Coromandel until next month.

The fourth victim of the horrific house fire in Flat Bush will be laid to rest today.

Firefighters are responding to a scrub fire in South Auckland this evening.

Hawke's Bay has had its driest January since 1950, according to MetService records for that month. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A video posted by the Russian Emergency Ministry captures firefighters saving about 150 pigs and piglets from a barn fire in a Siberian village.