Hamiora Reihana is in a critical condition in hospital after the T-shirt he was wearing caught fire and he suffered burns to about 30 per cent of his body.

Firefighters are battling a "well-involved" house fire near Ngaruawahia.

Emergency crews are at a large house fire in Castor Bay in Auckland, tonight.

Two people are in hospital after their car crashed over a bank and burst into flames in Coromandel this morning. Police said the

An investigation starts at first light into the cause of a massive blaze in a derelict Christchurch building.

Fire crews are attending a large fire in central Christchurch early this evening.

Get nervous flying? Then perhaps you should not look when this precision DC-10 pilot drops fire retardant on a California wildfire.

Smoke alarms have saved a Wainuiomata family from a house fire.

A rogue baggage trolley set off sprinklers and triggered fire alarms at Wellington Airport this evening.

A person suffered moderate injuries in a large fire in East Auckland this afternoon.

"Did the logs go up?" asked Sheree Paul when police questioned her about an attempt to set her neighbour's fence on fire. Paul was

Fire rips through Omaha house.

A 19-year-old man suffered a serious injury to his left foot in Central Park as he stepped on something that caused an explosion.

Semi Tonga says his home has been gutted by the fire but he's just thankful no one was hurt because almost everyone was out at church.

Footage of fire fighters battling a car fire overnight in Dunedin has emerged. Video source: Southern Stringers

Footage of fire fighters battling a car fire overnight in Dunedin has emerged.

Firefighters are at the scene of a significant house fire in Turangi which they have been battling since 3.50pm today.

Eleven-year-old Elli McLaughlan says smoke alarms save lives after a fire started by an electric blanket on her bed gutted her family's home in Westport yesterday.

A mother and her two children escaped injury in a house fire in Mosgiel last night by getting out quickly, Mosgiel fire station officer Steve Turnbull said.

An investigation is under way on a serious house blaze in the Auckland suburb of Mount Wellington this morning.

Two bodies were found near Lake Isabella as a deadly wildfire roared through dry brush and trees in the mountains of central California.

A garage housing hearses at a Nelson funeral home has been extensively damaged in a suspicious blaze overnight.

Four fire crews have been called to large blaze at a property in Kaukapakapa.

Seven fire crews are battling a fire at a women's clinic in Auckland.

Two injured in Wellington house fire.

Flames swept through the house on McKinstry Ave, Mangere, where Cathylyn Palaa lived with her brother and his wife and six children - one of about 3200 house fires every year. The house was destroyed and some of its remains are now mixed in with these words.

Fire crews are in attendance at a house fire in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie.

A firefighter has been treated for smoke inhalation after a suspicious blaze at an unoccupied Ohakune property early this morning.

Six people were treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Christchurch overnight.

Two next-door neighbours generations apart had an unusual introduction when one pulled the other from a house fire in Tokoroa.