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.

“Non-suspicious” faulty electrics was behind a blaze that last night damaged Auckland's historic St James theatre for the second time in a decade.

Jessica Bensemann had been home from hospital with her newborn son less than 12 hours when her Samsung washing machine went up in smoke and destroyed the bathroom.

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

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.

An overnight scene guard has been stationed at a vacant house in Napier that went up in flames last night.

Fire crews are battling a fire at a vacant house in Napier tonight.

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

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.

A 65-year-old man who lost his life in a blaze in Paeroa has been named by police.

Neighbours are mourning the loss of a 'very good friend' who died in a blaze in Paeroa this morning.

The blaze that gutted two Queenstown homes was yet another caused by the poor disposal of hot ashes, a fire safety officer says.