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House damaged in fire
A Fire Service spokesman said five fire crews had been at the scene of the large fire Paraparaumu.
A Fire Service spokesman said five fire crews had been at the scene of the large fire Paraparaumu.
An investigator will today determine the cause of a blaze that ripped through a Dunedin property last night.
Fire Safety investigators say initial indications are that a large fire in Glendene on Friday night was cause by leaking LPG.
Firefighters successfully contained a large fire in the Auckland suburb of Glendene last night. It took seventeen fire crew to extinguish the fire at a house on Bancroft Ave after they were called to the blaze about 9pm.
Family awoke to a strong smell and the sight of thick black smoke.
New Zealand is likely to get a new, national fire service - but regions will get a high degree of control over how they operate.
A house fire and a big blaze that flared up when a house being transported on two trucks hit power lines has kept firefighters busy.
A teenager has been arrested over a fire at a karate club in Invercargill.
A 10-year-old boy sent to his room to practise his times tables accidentally started a fatal house fire by playing with a lighter.
A man who died at a West Auckland house fire last night was trying to rescue children from the blaze.
Firefighters were called to the scene of a blaze at the Milson Foundry in Palmerston North this afternoon.
An Auckland firefighter who has been to "thousands" of call-outs has found out in the worst way possible what it's like to be on the other end of the emergency.
An elderly man may have died after getting "excited" by big flames during a farm burn-off in rural Canterbury last year, a coroner has heard.
Flames and plumes of black smoke erupted from the 100,000-litre tank and debris was strewn hundreds of metres.
An explosion "like a sonic boom" sent debris flying 100m through the air and killed one person in South Auckland today.
A large forest fire south of Dunedin, near the small village of Waipori Falls, is believed to be under control.
Hamilton firefighters had to intervene between a couple who started arguing after a fire began in their car.
A faulty dryer caused a fire in a rural Waikato home last night but it's appliance accomplice - the handy washing machine - helped douse the flames.
An electric cat mat was behind an inferno that damaged a house in Auckland this morning - one of three animal rescues today.
A fire at a community recycling depot in Alexandra is being investigated as an arson attack, with a detective saying it was clear a fire had been "deliberately lit".
The Fire Service were called to Central Otago Wastebusters on Boundary Rd in Alexandra just after 8pm and arrived to find the building "well ablaze".
Residents were among those who tried to save their screaming neighbours from a fatal house fire which is believed to have claimed the lives of an adult and child.
Students and staff were back on deck at South Westland Area School today, five days after fire destroyed a senior block at the Hari Hari school.
Tyres were placed under two Hamilton school buildings and set alight in the second arson attack on the school in six years.
Fire Service spokesman David Meikle said three crews went to the blaze just before 5.30am.
Fire investigators were today sifting through the charred remains of a classroom block gutted by fire at Hari Hari early last night.
Spontaneous combustion is believed to have triggered a large fire at an Auckland Laundromat this morning.
Nathan Jacobs had been away from his Arrowtown home for only about 20 minutes last night, before returning to find three fire crews dousing it in water.
At least two classrooms at South Westland Area School, in the small West Coast town of Hari Hari, were destroyed in a fire last night.
Two Nelson renters escaped a fire which started in the lounge of their two story house last night.