Forty-three firefighters will fly out from Auckland and Christchurch tomorrow afternoon to begin a three-week deployment.

A large storage shed at a Wairarapa vineyard has been damaged by fire overnight.

Fire has destroyed an important building at the Te Wananga o Raukawa tertiary institute in Otaki, north of Wellington.

Emergency services are currently at a large blaze east of Rotorua's central city at Sulphur Flats.

The cause of the fire is unknown.

Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze by midnight and have left the scene.

A fire broke out late Thursday night at the back of a school in south Auckland.

Emergency services were called to the rural Tararua property, which was well ablaze when they arrived.

Former world surf lifesaving Ironman champion Cory Hutchings and his partner Shelley woke up to the early morning attack.

A patch of grass is on fire on Mt Wellington in Auckland.

A fire broke out among a nest of multi-plugs powering up to 15 appliances in an elderly couple's bedroom.

Two helicopters are battling a scrub fire at Pouto, a remote location North of Auckland.

Smoke was seen billowing across Hamilton in the early hours of this morning as fire crews battled a large restaurant fire.

Fire crews were called to a second blaze in Napier this afternoon, while an earlier scrub fire at Poraiti has been brought under control.

A Canadian couple on holidaying in NZ found themselves caught up in the Mt Maunganui fire, and not for the first time.

An investigation is due to get underway on the slopes of Mt Maunganui today to determine what sparked this week's destructive blaze.

Four children badly burned after a car they were in caught fire in the backyard of a Huntly house were sniffing fly spray.

Fire investigators are this morning heading to the scene of a blaze that badly damaged Hutt Valley property last night.

A neighbour has spoken of seeing the skin on one boy's arm "totally gone" following a car fire that left four children injured.

Otago firefighters are continuing to battle a major bushfire it conditions that are making life "very difficult".

Police are guarding a popular restaurant, cafe and bar on the Gisborne's waterfront after it was severely damaged in a major fire.

At least 143 properties in Western Australia, including the 128 houses in the tiny town of Yarloop, have been destroyed by a raging bushfire.

A fire which ripped through a property in Canterbury could have led to more tragic consequences had those inside not woken up to the sound of windows smashing.

A fire that gutted a property in Gore early today is being treated as suspicious by the police.

Two helicopters are tackling an "aggressive" fire that has been burning in the middle of the Waitaki River near the South Island town of Kurow.

Most of the Australian township of Yarloop is gone after a bushfire swept through in a wave of obliteration.

A building at a Christchurch secondary school has been severely damaged in a suspicious fire early today.

Residents of a Kingsland property were lucky to escape a house blaze unharmed this morning.