Child playing with lighter burns family home down
A child playing with a lighter is believed to have started the fire that destroyed a house in Otumoetai yesterday. The fire service
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Fire crews battle Milton vegetation fire
Fire crews are fighting a vegetation fire south of Dunedin this morning.
Matakana blaze now out
Residents who were evacuated this afternoon have been allowed to return to their homes tonight.
Couple left homeless and jobless after fire
Karl Henderson found himself locked outside his burning shop when he realised his dog Stella was stuck inside. Wife Tracy had woken
Fire at high school extinguished
Firefighters battling blaze at Wellington school.
Two juveniles charged over deadly fires
The wildfires that tore through East Tennessee killed 14 people last week and left nearly 150 others injured.
Wgtn house fire treated as suspicious
A Wellington home has been gutted by fire overnight in a suspected arson.
Second suspicious fire in a month
An abandoned house at Runanga went up in smoke early today - the fourth building fire in the area in a month.
Rash of car fires suspicious
Police suspect arson after six car fires in Christchurch overnight.
Fire at Runanga home suspicious
A blaze that destroyed an empty West Coast home is being treated as suspicious.
Person feared trapped in fire
Firefighters went into a burning Invercargill home, fearing a person was trapped inside.
Police probe blaze at Ranui campground
A caravan at a West Auckland campground has been engulfed by fire in suspicious blaze.
Sawmill fire in Rotorua
Six fire crews are battling a blaze in the roof space of a sawmill in Rotorua.
'People made it out, or they didn't'
California officials fear up to 40 people have been killed in a massive fire that happened Friday night during a concert inside a building in Oakland.
Up to 40 could be dead in San Fran blaze
At least nine people died in a blaze that broke out during a party in a converted warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area,
Large blaze at Nelson house
Six fire crews are battling a "well involved" Nelson house fire and searching the property to see if anyone is inside.
Evacuations after noxious Napier blaze
Rush hour traffic between Hastings and Napier has been affected by a blaze at a Napier Fertiliser works earlier today.
Fire in historic Dunedin building
An historic four-storey building near Dunedin's Octagon has been damaged in a suspicious blaze.
Manurewa house fire treated as suspicious
A fire at a vacant Housing NZ property in Manurewa is being treated as suspicious.
UPDATE: Investigators probe cause of Taupo fire
Investigators will return to the scene of a large industrial fire in Taupo.
House fire same address as fatal stabbing
A suspicious house fire being investigated by police in West Auckland is the same address where a woman was stabbed to death last month.
Two suspicious fires in Canterbury
Two Canterbury fires are being treated as suspicious after being discovered one street apart in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Watch: House on fire in Stratford
Smoke is currently billowing out of a property on Juliet Street in the Taranaki town of Stratford.
Boss to pay worker after welding explosion
Judges orders boss to pay $12,000 to worker seriously injured when fuel tank exploded.
Fire damages Matakana workshop
Fire has badly damaged an automotive shop north of Auckland this morning.
Close call after blaze destroys family home
A Coal Creek family has lost everything when fire tore through their home at 3am.
Fire at plant near Gore extinguished
Firefighters from across Southland who were called to an explosion at Dongwha New Zealand's plant in Mataura at 4.30pm are preparing to leave the scene.
Man burns home after marriage split
A Dunedin man who burned down his family home days after his marriage fell apart can now be named.
Heart attack at fatal crash scene
Emergency services are responding to two incidents, one a fatal car crash at Clarks Beach and the other a fire on Ponui Island.
Four injured in Auckland crashes
A man suffered serious head injuries after crashing into a power pole in Waiuku, and three others were injured in a Glenn Innes crash.
Kaikoura: Damaged homes, networks down
Images are starting to come out of Kaikoura where widespread damage and one death has occurred.
Call to raze house where woman died
A resident is calling for the state house where a woman died after it suspiciously caught fire to be demolished. Linda Winifred Edwards
Popular mall evacuated after fire
A popular Auckland shopping mall was evacuated this morning after a fire broke out at a baby shop.