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

When a Waikato woman wanted to rid her property of a derelict house, she had the perfect idea: get her Fire Service colleagues to burn it down.

Emergency services are at the scene of an explosion in a Wellington apartment.

Police have charged a 22-year-old man with arson in relation to three fires in Westport's main street in recent months.

A shed being used as a sleepout was damaged by fire in one of two suspicious blazes overnight.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the fire at Six60's former flat which forced a man to jump from a window to safety at the weekend.

Kiwi woman Lucretia Britt says she knows her home and business are still standing in fire-ravaged Fort McMurray, Canada, but has no idea of how badly damaged they are.

A man has been remanded in custody after a fire ripped through a Christchurch church yesterday.

Family devastated after their new house burns down just a week after they moved it onto their land.

A man is being sought by police after a house in Invercargill was destroyed by fire earlier this week.

A mother and her five children had their Mangere home destroyed in a fire this morning but luckily no one was hurt thanks to a working smoke alarm.

A volunteer fireman, paged to attend a car fire, was shocked when he stepped out of his house and realised it was his own vehicle ablaze.

Fire fighters in Invercargill are battling a large house fire this evening.

A man dragged from the garage of his Tokoroa property after his house caught fire has died.

More than 1,000 firefighters and 100 helicopters are battling the huge fire that forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray in western Canada. But officials say they need rain to make real progress.

A barn on a property in Carterton has been engulfed in flames.

It's believed fireworks caused a large fire on Canterbury's Port Hills last night.

A man who was seriously injured after he poured petrol on a brazier and set it alight is being treated at the National Burn Centre.

The Porirua house where Pita Tekira shot police dog Gazza was badly damaged in a fire last night.

The death of a 79-year old Whanganui woman in a house fire could have been prevented with a working smoke alarm.

Firefighters in Dunedin are tackling a fire in a unit, which is threatening properties next door.

Two fires in Feilding early this morning are thought to be connected, and are being treated as suspicious.

Five fire crews are at the scene of a blaze that appears to have broken out in a campervan in Christchurch.

Firefighters are battling a large blaze on State Highway 1 south of Taupo this morning which has claimed three buildings on one property.

Fire investigators have launched an investigation into a suspicious fire in South Auckland tonight.

An elderly woman pulled unconscious from a burning house last night has died.

A fishing vessel is on fire at the Port of Lyttelton.

Residents in parts of Dunedin are being told to stay indoors due to smoke from a fire at a rubbish tip.