Firefighters battled a blaze at a student accommodation complex in central Wellington early this morning.

Several suspicious fires set on and outside a house in Christchurch are being investigated by emergency services.

Fire crews are still at the scene of a major fire that has destroyed a large building in Hawera overnight.

Photographs taken inside Westland High School show the devastating extent of the damage after the fire on Monday.

A person whose fireworks led to a large blaze at Paritutu Rock on Friday night has been tracked down by police.

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.

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".

A large-scale fire has broken out at a house located inside the Long Bay Regional Park, on Auckland's North Shore.

The blaze appears to have started in the kitchen and spread quickly into the ceiling of the building.

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.

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 fire broke out late Thursday night at the back of a school in south Auckland.

Emergency services were called to the rural Tararua property, which was well ablaze when they arrived.

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.