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Girls escaped blaze after calling 111
Two children who were home alone when a fire broke out in a bedroom are tonight being housed by family members.
Two children who were home alone when a fire broke out in a bedroom are tonight being housed by family members.
A woman who died after she was badly burned in a Christchurch house fire last week has been named.
The occupants of a Waikato house may have had a narrow escape overnight after a fire ripped through the building.
Owners of a house in Ohai will return to find their home ravaged by fire, after a blaze tore through the property early this morning.
Firefighters are trying to contain a fire in a shed at Matamata, which is full of palm kernel.
A woman badly burned in a Christchurch house fire last week has died.
Fifteen fire trucks are currently battling flames at a two storey house in the Coromandel.
A group of 15 New Zealand firefighters will fly out tonight to help contain wildfires that are burning uncontrollably in the United States.
Fire fighters are at the scene of a blaze in Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Six fire trucks were called to the scene at about 12.23pm.
A woman badly burned in a Christchurch house fire remains in a critical condition in hospital.
A woman critically burned in a Christchurch house fire yesterday has been flown to a specialist burns unit in Auckland.
The manager of a Christchurch laundry was taken to hospital with smoke inhalation after battling a blaze at his business.
A house was badly damaged in a South Island fire and one of its occupants was initially thought to be trapped inside.
An Otorohanga man is facing a charge of arson after the rural farm house he was living in was gutted by flames last night.
A Rotorua man had to jump naked out his kitchen window to escape a house fire that claimed everything he owned but his two guinea pigs.
Firefighters attended the scene of a fire at the Mt Albert Aquatic Centre in Auckland.
Smoke alarms alerted a family to ceiling fire in their Canterbury home early this morning.
A blaze which began behind a fire place at a home in Wellington last night was quickly brought under control.
Two appeals for funds to help three sisters who survived the Waimate fire which killed their parents and young brother have raised $67,365.
Two people were treated for smoke inhalation after a pot on a stove caught fire in New Plymouth today.
A house fire in central Christchurch this morning is being treated as suspicious.
Just over $40,000 has been raised for the three girls orphaned in a South Canterbury fire this week.
The Auckland strip club is likely to be out of action for awhile, after a "slow smouldering fire" damaged some 50 percent of the building.
The three sisters who escaped a house fire that killed their parents and younger brother yesterday have spoken of their horrifying ordeal for the first time.
Police have identified the man who died in a Panmure apartment fire yesterday.
The three sisters orphaned after yesterday's horror Waimate house fire have spent their first night without their parents and younger brother.
The blaze in Manurewa was thought to have been caused by a faulty electric blanket.
Two fires have claimed the lives of four people today, prompting the Fire Service to warn people that all blazes can be dangerous, regardless of size.