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.

Auckland fire services were called to a fire on a cliff that required an airport crash fire vessel to extinguish. Fire services from Titirangi and Laingholm were called to Opou Point near French Bay Titirangi about 9pm as a vegetation fire blazed on the cliff face last night. An area of 5000 square metres was on fire. Northern fire communications shift manager Jaron Phillips said a airport crash fire vessel was met by fire services at French Bay.

Auckland fire services were called to a fire on a cliff that required an airport crash fire vessel to extinguish.

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.

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.

Three people were inside the building at the time fire broke out.

A policeman who rescued a woman from a house fire says being honoured with a bravery award is the highlight of his 35-year career.

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.

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?

Two house fires in Tokoroa in the early hours of this morning are being treated as suspicious.

Firefighters battling a major fire in a West Auckland factory this evening will undergo decontamination after fears they have come into contact with dangerous toxic acids.

Widespread breaches of fire safety regulations are being discovered as multi-storey leaky apartments are pulled apart during weathertightness repairs.

Multiple calls to emergency services were made as a visible grass fire lit in Mount Roskill this afternoon.

Donations have poured in from around New Zealand for three sisters whose parents and young brother died in a Waimate fire two months ago.