Two people have received burns in a house fire in Christchurch this evening.

Fire crews are at a property in West Auckland tonight after a vehicle caught fire after crashing into a house.

Quick-thinking dairy farmer uses milk to put out a shed fire.

An old railway house at Otira razed by fire early today was not insured.

Firefighters are on their way to a major warehouse near Auckland Airport.

Two homes in remote areas of Canterbury have been destroyed by fire overnight.

A man charged with arson after a house fire in the Dunedin suburb of Concord will apply for bail tomorrow.

'When the pager went off I didn't read it properly and didn't realise the fire was at our station,' says firefighter.

A boy has been rushed to hospital with serious burns from fireworks tonight.

Whanganui senior firefighter Tanja Grunwald is off to the World Firefighter Combat Challenge in the United States. Made with funding from NZ on Air

The 47-year-old man accused of lighting a number of rubbish bins on fire across Wellington has appeared in court. Robert Mackie

Seven suspicious fires have been lit across Wellington in a busy night for police and firefighters.

A fire at a block of Otara units is "well-involved", a fire service spokesman says.

Children were caught setting fire to astro turf at a South Wairarapa school this afternoon.

Sean Hay and John Wallace could be in the middle of a maths class one minute and fighting a fire the next. The Kamo High School 17-year

A family escaped a blaze in their two-storey Greymouth home.

An iPhone owner says his 6sPlus phone began smoking before exploding as he and his baby lay just centimetres away.

Firefighters are battling a large house fire north of Auckland this evening.

A timber house on Raurimu Rd in the Central North Island settlement has burned to the ground.

Power has been restored to more than 2000 homes after a transformer in Auckland exploded.

An electric transformer is on fire in Auckland

A worker has described his feelings of devastation after the plastics factory he worked at for 16 years was destroyed by fire.

Papakura residents were awoken about 5am today to the sounds of explosions from a car ablaze in a Red Hill parking lot.

A firefighter suffered minor burns while battling a housefire in Wainuiomata this afternoon. Fire Service shift manager David Meikle

A house fire in Franklin St yesterday afternoon, caused by a faulty washing machine, would have been far worse were it not for working smoke alarms.

Police and fire officers are looking into a suspicious blaze at a council flat in Christchurch early today.

A home has been destroyed by fire in a Gore overnight.

A person has suffered serious burns to their body in a house fire in Hastings last night.