Fifteen fire trucks are currently battling flames at a two storey house in the Coromandel.

A group of 15 New Zealand firefighters will fly out tonight to help contain wildfires that are burning uncontrollably in the United States.

Fire fighters are at the scene of a blaze in Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Six fire trucks were called to the scene at about 12.23pm.

The pigs died in a blaze at a piggery north of Ngaruawahia.

Emergency services were called out to an address in Auckland after reports of an explosion in a garage fire.

A woman badly burned in a Christchurch house fire remains in a critical condition in hospital.

A woman critically burned in a Christchurch house fire yesterday has been flown to a specialist burns unit in Auckland.

An Otorohanga man is facing a charge of arson after the rural farm house he was living in was gutted by flames last night.

A Rotorua man had to jump naked out his kitchen window to escape a house fire that claimed everything he owned but his two guinea pigs.

Firefighters attended the scene of a fire at the Mt Albert Aquatic Centre in Auckland.

A person's body was found after a fierce house fire in Taranaki last night.

Four people managed to escape a fire that completely destroyed their homes in Dunedin overnight.

Smoke alarms alerted a family to ceiling fire in their Canterbury home early this morning.

A blaze which began behind a fire place at a home in Wellington last night was quickly brought under control.

Two appeals for funds to help three sisters who survived the Waimate fire which killed their parents and young brother have raised $67,365.

Two people were treated for smoke inhalation after a pot on a stove caught fire in New Plymouth today.

The Auckland strip club is likely to be out of action for awhile, after a "slow smouldering fire" damaged some 50 percent of the building.

The three sisters who escaped a house fire that killed their parents and younger brother yesterday have spoken of their horrifying ordeal for the first time.

Police have identified the man who died in a Panmure apartment fire yesterday.

The three sisters orphaned after yesterday's horror Waimate house fire have spent their first night without their parents and younger brother.

The blaze in Manurewa was thought to have been caused by a faulty electric blanket.

Two fires have claimed the lives of four people today, prompting the Fire Service to warn people that all blazes can be dangerous, regardless of size.

Three sisters orphaned after a horror house fire in South Canterbury this morning are "very scared" and mourning the loss of their parents and younger brother.

One person has died in an apartment fire in Auckland's Panmure this afternoon.

A spate of electric blanket fires have sparked a reminder from firefighters about looking after the devices properly this winter.

Spontaneously combusting tea towels caused a fire at a laundromat overnight.

Four people have been rescued off the roof of a burning building in South Auckland this morning.

A person who tried fighting a kitchen fire was taken to hospital after suffering smoke inhalation last night.