Police are warning people to stay away from the area near school on fire due to toxic smoke.

A man and his young daughter escaped a "massive" fire which destroyed their family home on Auckland's Waiheke Island early this morning.

Emergency services are currently at a large fire in the suburb of New Lynn, West Auckland.

A house has been destroyed in a scrub fire that is still burning on Waiheke Island this morning.

A large fire in New Plymouth is thought to have been started by fireworks.

All people feared to be inside a house that was on fire in Hamilton are safe and accounted for.

Five highly experienced New Zealand Defence Force firefighters have been deployed to battle remote bush fires in northwest Tasmania.

Timon Arama Garbes, 30, was discovered after a fire at a house on State Highway 1 at Waipapa Bay on Saturday.

The Fire Service is investigating a "suspicious" North Shore house fire in which a family "lost everything".

The man was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a moderate condition but is reportedly 'stable and doing well' this morning.

A body has been found in the rubble of the house, near Kaikoura, that was engulfed in flames on Saturday evening.

Forty-three firefighters will fly out from Auckland and Christchurch tomorrow afternoon to begin a three-week deployment.

A large storage shed at a Wairarapa vineyard has been damaged by fire overnight.

Fire has destroyed an important building at the Te Wananga o Raukawa tertiary institute in Otaki, north of Wellington.

Emergency services are currently at a large blaze east of Rotorua's central city at Sulphur Flats.

The cause of the fire is unknown.

Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze by midnight and have left the scene.

A Runanga man in his 30s was lighting a fire and apparently suffered burns as a result of a "blow back" from the fire.

Three firefighters are being treated for lime burn injuries after tackling a shed fire in the Waikato today.

Former world surf lifesaving Ironman champion Cory Hutchings and his partner Shelley woke up to the early morning attack.

A patch of grass is on fire on Mt Wellington in Auckland.

A fire broke out among a nest of multi-plugs powering up to 15 appliances in an elderly couple's bedroom.

Two helicopters are battling a scrub fire at Pouto, a remote location North of Auckland.

Smoke was seen billowing across Hamilton in the early hours of this morning as fire crews battled a large restaurant fire.

Fire crews were called to a second blaze in Napier this afternoon, while an earlier scrub fire at Poraiti has been brought under control.

A Canadian couple on holidaying in NZ found themselves caught up in the Mt Maunganui fire, and not for the first time.

An investigation is due to get underway on the slopes of Mt Maunganui today to determine what sparked this week's destructive blaze.

Crews have managed to contain a large scrub fire in Southland, and about 20 firefighters remained at the scene tonight dampening down hot spots.