Fire crews and Fonterra staff are cleaning up after two hazardous cleaning agents spilled at a plant overnight.

A Timaru factory has been damaged after a heating unit used for plastics moulds caught fire.

Two people died and 34 were injured after a huge fire broke at a Maryland apartment complex forcing residents to toss children from upper floors.

Watch: More than 30 firefighters are attempting to put out a chimney fire at the Jack's Point Golf Course clubhouse, near Queenstown, this morning.

A mother killed by a faulty tumble dryer which a manufacturer had failed to recall - despite the model being responsible for 20 previous fires.

Thirteen people are dead and six injured after a fire tore through a crowded bar in the French city of Rouen.

Auckland firefighters refuse to use the city's main fire truck due to safety fears.

Nine quad bikes have been destroyed in a suspicious blaze overnight.

The man whose body was found in a burnt out unit in Christchurch last week has been named.

A sow breaking free from her burning pen alerted her owner to the fire catching onto the side of his house. The fire started in an

Firefighters are at the scene of a large fire at an Invercargill business early this morning.

Queenstown firefighters have put out the flames at a house which caught alight in the early hours of this morning.

Five people had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a pot being used to sterilise baby bottles was left on the stove.

A character villa gutted by fire is on the market - with suggestions the 1900s classic could be saved.

Police are still working to identify a man who died in a Christchurch fire on Wednesday.

Eight workers are being treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a Sleepyhead store in South Auckland.

The body was found by police and fire investigators while examining the scene of a fire that happened in the early hours at a Rutherford St address in Woolston.

A blazing wheelie bin, exploding spaghetti, and a hunt for the culprit through the dark streets of Whanganui made for an eventful

A car burnt out in Dunedin is added to a police investigation, into a recent string of car fires.

Fire safety officers investigating the cause of a large fire in a two-storey block of flats in Christchurch this morning.

Fire chief calls today's death "real tragedy" but dismayed at lack of smoke alarms.

Another suspicious blaze has broken out in an abandoned apartment block in central Christchurch.

Two homes North Island homes damaged in overnight fires.

A teenager has been taken to hospital after suffering burns while trying to start a fire using petrol.

Firefighters are battling a house fire in Hamilton after they were called to the property.

Unwatched pot bursts into flames but family safe after smoke alarm warning.

Hamiora Reihana is in a critical condition in hospital after the T-shirt he was wearing caught fire and he suffered burns to about 30 per cent of his body.

Firefighters are battling a "well-involved" house fire near Ngaruawahia.

Emergency crews are at a large house fire in Castor Bay in Auckland, tonight.

Two people are in hospital after their car crashed over a bank and burst into flames in Coromandel this morning. Police said the