Fire crews are currently at the scene of a large house fire in Rotorua.

The Raetihi Bowling Club has been significantly damaged by fire - making it the fourth serious blaze in less than a week in the wider

A person has suffered burns in a building fire in Auckland today.

Athletes have been forced to evacuate the Olympic track as a large bushland burns close to the stadiums.

Fire crews and Fonterra staff are cleaning up after two hazardous cleaning agents spilled at a plant overnight.

A Timaru factory has been damaged after a heating unit used for plastics moulds caught fire.

Two people died and 34 were injured after a huge fire broke at a Maryland apartment complex forcing residents to toss children from upper floors.

Watch: More than 30 firefighters are attempting to put out a chimney fire at the Jack's Point Golf Course clubhouse, near Queenstown, this morning.

A mother killed by a faulty tumble dryer which a manufacturer had failed to recall - despite the model being responsible for 20 previous fires.

Nine quad bikes have been destroyed in a suspicious blaze overnight.

The man whose body was found in a burnt out unit in Christchurch last week has been named.

An Auckland family plans to make a fire-gutted Grey Lynn villa their home after purchasing it at auction.

A workshop at the historic Keirunga Gardens in Havelock North has been seriously damaged by fire.

A sow breaking free from her burning pen alerted her owner to the fire catching onto the side of his house. The fire started in an

Firefighters are at the scene of a large fire at an Invercargill business early this morning.

Queenstown firefighters have put out the flames at a house which caught alight in the early hours of this morning.

Five people had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a pot being used to sterilise baby bottles was left on the stove.

A character villa gutted by fire is on the market - with suggestions the 1900s classic could be saved.

The body was found by police and fire investigators while examining the scene of a fire that happened in the early hours at a Rutherford St address in Woolston.

A blazing wheelie bin, exploding spaghetti, and a hunt for the culprit through the dark streets of Whanganui made for an eventful

The large blaze is on a steep hillside off Aropaoanui Road, north of Napier.

There has been a serious house fire near Christchurch this afternoon, but no one is hurt.

A car burnt out in Dunedin is added to a police investigation, into a recent string of car fires.

Fire safety officers investigating the cause of a large fire in a two-storey block of flats in Christchurch this morning.

Fire chief calls today's death "real tragedy" but dismayed at lack of smoke alarms.

Another suspicious blaze has broken out in an abandoned apartment block in central Christchurch.

Two homes North Island homes damaged in overnight fires.

A teenager has been taken to hospital after suffering burns while trying to start a fire using petrol.

Firefighters are battling a house fire in Hamilton after they were called to the property.

Unwatched pot bursts into flames but family safe after smoke alarm warning.