Police say a petrol bomb was used in the arson of a police car in Pukekohe last Friday.

One person was seriously burned and taken to hospital after a house fire this morning.

A truck that caught fire early this morning, is causing traffic delays on State Highway 27 near Morrinsville.

Christchurch firefighters took an hour to bring a fire under control that broke out on the second floor of a high rise building this morning.

A piece of equipment on a drilling truck which caught fire caused smoke to pour down a central Wellington street earlier today.

A person has been saved from a house fire in Christchurch early this morning.

Police are investigating after a police patrol car was set alight in Pukekohe overnight.

A large fire has engulfed a cool store and pack house building near Te Puke overnight.

Police could only stand back and watch as fire destroyed a 10m yacht south of Auckland yesterday.

A fire at a Westfield mall in West Auckland that sparked a mass evacuation has been extinguished, with the mall reopened to the public.

Two men have been arrested and charged with arson over two Wellington fires in the last few months.

Both places were called home by the vast foreign workforce drawn to the United Arab Emirates. Both caught fire last week.The similarities end there.

A house has been destroyed by fire in the central Auckland suburb of Onehunga this morning.

A helicopter is being used to dampen hot spots following an eight hectare fire in the Wellington suburb of Wainuiomata overnight.

A couple of close calls prove life is a series of tests, writes Steve Braunias.

A fire has ripped through the Torch in Dubai - one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.

Deliberately-lit property fires in Dunedin's student quarter could kill someone, a detective investigating the case warns.

Windows exploded as a Dannevirke woman and three young children ran from a blazing home with flames licking at their backs.

A woman cried "everything's gone" before collapsing as her family's home went up in flames yesterday.

Firefighters were this afternoon battling a blaze which engulfed a North Shore house. A Fire Service spokeswoman said "half of Auckland" contacted emergency services about the fire on Upper Harbour Drive, Greenhithe, about midday. Video: Paul Alexander

Firefighters were this afternoon battling a blaze which engulfed a North Shore house. A Fire Service spokeswoman said "half of Auckland" contacted emergency services about the fire on Upper Harbour Drive, Greenhithe, about midday.

Firefighters were this afternoon battling a blaze which engulfed a North Shore house.

A young family are devastated after a major house fire wrecked their suburban home this afternoon.

"It's a little unusual to say the least." A teen's been left "shaken" after he disturbed an armed intruder trying to set fire to a couch in his Fairlie home.

A fire burning in a Timaru building which sparked evacuations this morning appears to have burnt itself out.