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High-end lodge up in flames
A multimillion-dollar luxury lodge in Whangamata's Wentworth Valley was engulfed by "a huge fireball" and destroyed early yesterday.
A multimillion-dollar luxury lodge in Whangamata's Wentworth Valley was engulfed by "a huge fireball" and destroyed early yesterday.
A private lodge in Coromandel was badly damaged by a large fire early this morning.
A blaze that raged through 20ha of hand-planted pohutukawa forest yesterday has struck a blow to the small community of Karekare Beach on Auckland's west coast.
Firefighters battled a large scrub fire on Auckland's west coast on the road leading to the popular Karekare surf beach.
Firefighters are at a blaze in a vacant shop in rural Southland.
Australia was battling weather extremes yesterday with South Australia hit by its first tropical storm for 15 years, just as the state's north faced a catastrophic bushfire risk.
A shed at a poultry factory on the outskirts of Levin was engulfed in flames this morning.
The lighting of outdoor fires in Christchurch and on Banks Peninsula will be restricted from today.
Firefighters have contained a large bush fire that came dangerously close to destroying the main power feed between the North and South Islands.
Two firefighters were injured, two houses destroyed and residents evacuated by helicopter as a bushfire was fanned by strong winds and raged out of control yesterday.
Fire fighters are battling a large fire in high winds in a remote bay east of Picton and say they have fears for public safety.
Firefighters in Auckland battled a grass fire in the crater of Mt Eden early this morning.
Firefighters from across Auckland were this afternoon battling a "substantial'' factory fire on Te Atatu Peninsula.
A couple fled their luxury yacht early this morning when it was engulfed in flames and sunk in the Marlborough Sounds.
A 50 foot boat sank in the Marlborough Sounds early this morning after a huge fire on board which left two people needing treatment.
Fire north communications shift inspector Scott Osmond said about three hectares of vegetation were off Waipoua Settlement Rd in the Kaipara district were involved in fire.
One person has died in a house fire in Upper Hutt overnight. Police said emergency services were called to the blaze in Trentham, Upper Hutt shortly after 8pm.
When school principal David Grant's house burned to the ground in July, the last thing he thought was that he was "lucky".
A house was destroyed by fire in the small Taranaki town of Okaiawa last night.
A 36-year-old man has died after his makeshift shelter burnt down overnight.
A person has been found dead in a tent near Marton following a fire. Police and fire investigators have entered the site and a police cordon was put in place.
The Department of Conservation is interviewing a man in connection with a fire that burnt more than 100ha of forest and tussock land high in the Mt Aspiring National Park.
A scrub fire which lit up the Hutt Valley last night is believed to have been deliberately set.