No one was injured in the fire.

Four suspicious hedge fires overnight are being investigated by Timaru police.

A major fire has damaged a Christchurch home this afternoon.

A suspected firebug built up piles of kindling across an urban park before lighting two blazes this morning, a firefighter says.

Fire crews at a Taupo plastics factory have now left the scene after a major blaze tore through the building.

Twelve months on from her son's horrific death and Sharon Otto still can't bear to go to the Hamilton house where he died.

A major fire burnt down a holiday home and left the house next-door damaged in Hahei early this morning.

Taieri College in Dunedin will open today, and school examinations will not be affected by the fire in the roof of the school hall.

A Waikato woman has been airlifted to hospital with burns after a fire in the garage of her home early today.

Nine firefighting crews are attending a fire at Taieri College in Mosgiel.

A helicopter is joining in the efforts to put out a major fire near Sulphur Point in Rotorua.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from office towers after a fire sparked by workmen on a roof sent thick smoke billowing through the capital.

One person was taken to hospital and treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Central Otago last night.

Firefighters were called to a blaze at an unoccupied West Harbour house overnight.

A fire at a marae in Huntly prompted a call-out from fire crews today.

Police said the men were in a Toyota Hilux on Saturday, at Whakamahi Beach when fumes from a leaking gas cylinder exploded.

A fire has badly damaged a restaurant called Masterchef Kitchen in Panmure this morning.

A fire has badly damaged a restaurant called Masterchef Kitchen in Panmure this morning.

A fire in an excavator in the Grey Valley mid-afternoon yesterday is thought to have been caused by rats chewing the electrics.

Brian Lewis Halvorsen, aged 64, died after a fire destroyed his caravan at Club Waimea caravan park at about 8pm on Saturday.

There was no suspicious activity behind a fatal house fire in which one man died, police said today.

An early morning fire which ripped through a vacant block of flats in Hokitika is being treated as arson.

Firefighters have been called to a fire at Spring Hill Prison in the Waikato.

Richmond fire chief Ralph Lonsdale said the caravan went up "very, very fast".

Firefighters called to a fire at a set of flats in Petone last night arrived to found a body inside.

Blaze tore through the rear of a two-storey block of shops in Auckland.

Fire rips through intermediate school in Hawera.

The cause of a fire which raged across Saddle Hill last week will not be released to the public, the Otago Rural Fire Authority says.

A car was engulfed in flames on a road north of Auckland this morning.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, so they say. But what about when life gives you 100ha fires?