Westland High School students and staff were back in a school routine yesterday, although not from the actual school premises, which remain cordoned off following the fire.

The vehicle, in a southbound lane near the Papakura exit, was burning fiercely when fire crews arrived at the scene.

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.

A person whose fireworks led to a large blaze at Paritutu Rock on Friday night has been tracked down by police.

Police are warning people to stay away from the area near school on fire due to toxic smoke.

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 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.

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.