Smoke alarms have saved a Wainuiomata family from a house fire.

A rogue baggage trolley set off sprinklers and triggered fire alarms at Wellington Airport this evening.

Samsung says it has apologised to an Otaki mother who lost a load of baby clothes after her recalled washing machine burst into flames.

A Housing NZ house has been destroyed by fire and a young woman taken to hospital suffering burns.

A person suffered moderate injuries in a large fire in East Auckland this afternoon.

"Did the logs go up?" asked Sheree Paul when police questioned her about an attempt to set her neighbour's fence on fire. Paul was

Fire rips through Omaha house.

A 19-year-old man suffered a serious injury to his left foot in Central Park as he stepped on something that caused an explosion.

Semi Tonga says his home has been gutted by the fire but he's just thankful no one was hurt because almost everyone was out at church.

Firefighters are at the scene of a significant house fire in Turangi which they have been battling since 3.50pm today.

Eleven-year-old Elli McLaughlan says smoke alarms save lives after a fire started by an electric blanket on her bed gutted her family's home in Westport yesterday.

Fire crews were called to the scene of a house fire in Westport early this morning.

Emergency services were called to a "well involved" fire in a two-storey Penrose Street house at about 1pm today.

A mother and her two children escaped injury in a house fire in Mosgiel last night by getting out quickly, Mosgiel fire station officer Steve Turnbull said.

An investigation is under way on a serious house blaze in the Auckland suburb of Mount Wellington this morning.

Two bodies were found near Lake Isabella as a deadly wildfire roared through dry brush and trees in the mountains of central California.

A garage housing hearses at a Nelson funeral home has been extensively damaged in a suspicious blaze overnight.

Four fire crews have been called to large blaze at a property in Kaukapakapa.

Flames swept through the house on McKinstry Ave, Mangere, where Cathylyn Palaa lived with her brother and his wife and six children - one of about 3200 house fires every year. The house was destroyed and some of its remains are now mixed in with these words.

Fire crews are in attendance at a house fire in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie.

A firefighter has been treated for smoke inhalation after a suspicious blaze at an unoccupied Ohakune property early this morning.

Six people were treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Christchurch overnight.

Two next-door neighbours generations apart had an unusual introduction when one pulled the other from a house fire in Tokoroa.

A child managed to save a baby sibling, who was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, from a house fire in Auckland today.

Two people suffered serious burns in a shed fire in Christchurch last night.

Firefighters have been called to a blaze at the Grant Thornton House in downtown Wellington this morning.

There's been a fire at a textile coating and lamination factory in the east of Auckland this morning.

Three fire trucks and ambulance staff are at the scene, on Cumberland Crescent in Welcome Bay.

Two children have been treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire near Rotorua this morning.

Emergency services are on their way to a car fire on the South Western motorway in Auckland, where the driver had a lucky escape.