Smoke alarms saved four people from their "smoke logged" Christchurch home early this morning.

Fire investigators are looking into a fire that took hold in the Auckland suburb of Avondale last night.

A fire is a woodshed in under investigation this morning after a person was seriously injured in the blaze.

Fire crews are at the scene of a house fire in the Auckland suburb of Three Kings.

Fire services were at the scene of a fatal house fire in Mt Wellington.

Firefighters are trying to confirm if anybody was stuck inside a building on fire on the West Coast this morning.

Kiwi rural fire specialists will fly to Canada today to help that country contain huge wildfires.

One person has been taken to hospital after a small fire broke out in the lunchroom of a factory in Auckland today.

People are asking people to check they aren't using appliances that have been recalled after a washing machine fire over the weekend.

A fire at Whakatane Intermediate School last night caused serious damage to one classroom.

A man has been taken to hospital with serious burns after a fire in a west Auckland garage tonight.

Investigators probing a blaze that destroyed most of a historic Waikato winery will be back at first light to look into the cause.

Flames and smoke from the fiery blaze at a historic Waikato winery could be seen on the horizon from kilometres away.

Fire investigators are at a mechanical workshop in Christchurch after a blaze tore through the building early this morning.

No one was injured in a fire which destroyed a garage in Auckland overnight.

Two Kiwi sailors had just seconds to grab life jackets and abandon their burning yacht after being woken by their skipper at midnight.

A fire that engulfed a Kaitaia church this morning is being treated as suspicious.

A "Roman candle" in the sky led firefighters to a blaze at a Westport joinery factory last night.

A resident has suffered serious smoke inhalation and minor burns after escaping from a fire that gutted their Christchurch home this morning.

A Palmerston North woman is reluctant to label herself a hero despite saving two young children from a burning car in a supermarket carpark.

A central Wellington building was evacuated this afternoon after a first floor kitchen caught fire.

An electrical fire at an Invercargill school is now under control after breaking out early this morning.

Firefighters are still battling a fierce blaze at a panelbeaters in Dunedin tonight, but have managed to bring the fire under control.

A fire which destroyed a suburban Auckland home early yesterday morning started in the family's laundry, where there were no smoke detectors.

Three people and a dog are believed to have escaped a fire that gutted a suburban Auckland house overnight.

The Fire Service wants new regulations on child-safe lighters to be fast-tracked by the Government after another house was badly damaged by a child playing with a lighter.

A woman was dragged from a burning home in Auckland last night by quick thinking firefighters after a fire broke out in the kitchen.