The fire at TVNZ headquarters has now been extinguished, and fans are being used to ventilate the building.

A fire has broken out at TVNZ Headquarters on Victoria St, Auckland.

Firefighters last night battled a blaze at a farm on Great Barrier Island.

A large fire has destroyed a farm house on Great Barrier Island after it was spotted by off-duty Fire Service staff staying at a hotel on the island.

A man has been arrested following a house fire north of Wellington this morning, which is being treated as a domestic incident.

The owners of 200 storage units lost everything when a Wellington facility became the target of an arson, a court was told today.

The trial for the man who is accused of setting a Wellington storage facility on fire, destroying millions of dollars worth of property, has started in the High Court

Smoke alarms are not most people's idea of a Christmas present, but the Fire Service wants us to think about them anyway.

The 18-month-old toddler injured when his Mount Wellington home went up in flames on Saturday remains in a critical condition in Middlemore Hospital.

A woman who died in a house fire in Christchurch last week has been identified by police.

A toddler revived by firefighters after being pulled from his burning home is fighting for his life in Middlemore Hospital.

Heroic neighbours have told how a family formed a human chain to pass children to safety from a second-storey window at a house fire in Auckland yesterday morning.

Fire Service bosses are seeking law changes making it compulsory for rental properties to have smoke alarms installed and maintained.

A baby is in a critical condition following a house fire in Mount Wellington this morning.

Mourners are today gathering to farewell two of the three young people who died in a fierce Hamilton house fire last week.

Emergency services were called to the house in Malone Road Mount Wellington and found it "well ablaze".

Greg Johnston's life was shattered the moment he received a phone call to say his little sister was unaccounted for in a devastating house fire.

The head of fire investigations in the country says the recent spike in fatal house fires has "no rhyme or reason".

The family of Hamilton fire victim Toni Maree Johnston has described her as an infectious and fun-loving young woman at a press conference this afternoon.

The first of the funerals for three Hamilton house-fire victims will be tomorrow, as some of the grieving families prepare to speak publicly for the first time today.

One person has suffered burns after a family narrowly escaped from a house fire in Christchurch overnight.

Victim identification and a forensic examination at the site of a fatal Hamilton house fire involving specialist cadaver dogs is continuing after three people were killed on Saturday.

It wasn't meant to be a big party - just a gathering of a few friends of flatmates at the old Collingwood St villa to welcome a new flatmate.

Parents of a young woman who died with two others in a house fire say it's a 'bloody nightmare', as police seek cellphone footage of a party held that night.

Crowds gathered and bagpipe music played as a hearses containing the bodies were driven from the burnt remains of the house where three people died.

Power has now been restored to thousands of Auckland homes after an outage earlier this evening left them in the dark as stormy weather batters the city.

Three people have died and four have been treated by ambulance staff following a fire at a Hamilton home overnight. Waikato Detective Senior Sergeant Graham Pitkethley said the cause of the fire at the two storey wooden home on Collingwood St was unexplained and was being treated as suspicious until confirmed otherwise.