Homes were evacuated as 18 fire crews and two helicopters battled a blaze which destroyed a house in Canterbury and put one person in hospital with burn injuries.

A firefighter was injured after falling through a staircase in a burning Grey Lynn house early today.

The blaze broke out at Glinks Gully at about midnight.

Seven fire crews and a helicopter have brought a large fire north of Pines Beach in Canterbury under control.

A man injured in a fire while doing demolition work at Marsden Pt oil refinery remained in Whangarei Hospital yesterday.

At its peak the fire was believed to be 1km in length and had 11 crews working to contain it.

A fire destroyed a home in Middlemarch yesterday and left the occupants, including a mother and her two sons, counting their losses.

Firefighters are battling a large house fire on Roscommon Road, Manurewa.

A 17-year-old will appear in court next week in relation to the fire on Paritutu Rock in New Plymouth last Friday.

Crews were called to the Hataitai Hot Bread Shop on Moxham Avenue just after 7.30 this morning.

Smoke is coming from trees on the hill, just above the Mount Victoria tunnel.

Firefighters battled a blaze at a student accommodation complex in central Wellington early this morning.

Several suspicious fires set on and outside a house in Christchurch are being investigated by emergency services.

Fire crews are still at the scene of a major fire that has destroyed a large building in Hawera overnight.

Photographs taken inside Westland High School show the devastating extent of the damage after the fire on Monday.

A man and his young daughter escaped a "massive" fire which destroyed their family home on Auckland's Waiheke Island early this morning.

Emergency services are currently at a large fire in the suburb of New Lynn, West Auckland.

A house has been destroyed in a scrub fire that is still burning on Waiheke Island this morning.

A large fire in New Plymouth is thought to have been started by fireworks.

All people feared to be inside a house that was on fire in Hamilton are safe and accounted for.

Five highly experienced New Zealand Defence Force firefighters have been deployed to battle remote bush fires in northwest Tasmania.

Timon Arama Garbes, 30, was discovered after a fire at a house on State Highway 1 at Waipapa Bay on Saturday.

The Fire Service is investigating a "suspicious" North Shore house fire in which a family "lost everything".

A large-scale fire has broken out at a house located inside the Long Bay Regional Park, on Auckland's North Shore.

The blaze appears to have started in the kitchen and spread quickly into the ceiling of the building.

The man was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a moderate condition but is reportedly 'stable and doing well' this morning.

A body has been found in the rubble of the house, near Kaikoura, that was engulfed in flames on Saturday evening.