Firefighters are battling a blaze at a scrap metal yard in Silverdale, north of Auckland, this morning.

The funeral for the three family members killed in a Flat Bush house fire will be held in Manukau today.

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.

A woman is in a serious condition after suffering severe burns to 25 per cent of her body in a car fire.

Firefighters in Kaiapoi, North of Christchurch, are attending a large blaze near the Waimakariri River this afternoon.

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.

Crews from Thames, Turua, Te Puru and Tapu have been called to assist at the blaze.

Emergency crews are being kept busy after a series of crashes in Auckland and Wellington this afternoon.

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.