Police are investigating complaints about a social media appeal for a Morrinsville family who lost everything in a house fire.

A teen and her three young brothers have been gassed to death by a lethal pesticide sprayed under their Texas home.

Neighbours of a Hamilton house on fire woke the sleeping family in time to escape with their lives.

Exactly what caused a huge bush fire in Northland is still being investigated. Several fire crews and two helicopters were needed

Auckland and Bay of Plenty worst hit, but authorities say reduction efforts have worked.

The Auckland man who lost three family members in a horrific house fire last month is still critically injured and will not be able

Kiwis in London are mourning the loss of a popular local watering hole which burned down in a New Year's Eve blaze.

"My whole body was burning; I could feel sparks stinging my face," said Kiwi traveller at New Year's Eve fireworks display.

A Mexican restaurant in Hamilton's CBD has been damaged by fire early today.

The fire burning in Matai in the Far North is no longer a threat to people or their homes.

Five helicopters with monsoon buckets have been dispatched to the Far North in a bid to bring a large scrub fire under control.

New Year's Eve fireworks are believed to have sparked a fire on Mt Wellington's volcanic cone - and in the Far North where buildings and campers were also under threat.

The Fire Service is responding to multiple reports of a grass fire in Christchurch.

A funeral will be held for an Auckland man's son, wife and mother-in-law this week after a house fire claimed their lives and left

Fire crews are rushing to a scrub fire at Peria, just south of Mangonui in the Far North.

Firefighters are battling three scrub fires near Blenheim this afternoon.

The Department of Conservation is sending in helicopters this morning to deal with the remnants of a bush fire on the Coromandel.

Firefighters responding to reports of smoke at a multi-storey building are using thermal imaging cameras to find the source.

The inhabitants of a house that caught fire today escaped without injury.

Four fire crews are battling a blaze in the Lower Hutt suburb of Stokes Valley.

Fire crews remained on watch last night near the remains of a forest blaze near Dunedin.

One of four suspicious fires along a stretch of roadside west of Taupo this afternoon destroyed an area of native bush and came perilously close to a rural home.

Occupants in a Morrinsville house managed to flee before their house burned down this afternoon.

Firefighters spent more than an hour battling five small blazes in Taupo which they suspect were deliberately lit.

A man who survived an Auckland house fire that killed members of his family is showing signs of recovery in hospital, supporters say.

A man who survived an Auckland house fire that killed members of his family is showing signs of recovery in hospital, supporters say. Refugee

An elderly couple in Britain who wanted to show their young grandchildren a traditional German Christmas ended up burning their house down.

A front window of a house in Otara, South Auckland is burnt out after a fire this morning.

A man who lost his wife, 5-year-old son and mother-in-law in a fatal house fire on Thursday has opened his eyes for the first time since the tragedy.

An 11-year-old girl who escaped the fatal house fire which claimed the lives of her mother, brother and grandmother is inconsolable with grief.