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Wellington house destroyed by fire
An abandoned Wellington house was destroyed by a suspicious fire today. Smoke from the fire could be seen from as far away as Wellington Airport.
An abandoned Wellington house was destroyed by a suspicious fire today. Smoke from the fire could be seen from as far away as Wellington Airport.
Eight people were rescued from a house fire in Auckland's suburb of Glen Eden this morning.
Christchurch fire crews were kept busy last night with two serious blazes across the city.
A woman who wanted to flee Christchurch after becoming embroiled with a gang and set fire in her own flat has been jailed for more than four years.
Fire safety officers will investigate a suspicious blaze at an unused timber mill at Kaitaia.
The sole occupant of a newly-renovated Dunedin home extensively damaged in a fire fled the inferno after she was woken by a smoke alarm.
The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park has become the fourth-largest conflagration in modern California history.
One house has been destroyed and another damaged after two fires in the South Island overnight.
A truck laden with newspapers ignited in a dramatic fire in Canterbury early this morning.
An Otago teenager is lucky to have escaped serious injury after a fireball erupted when she was cooking in a Pine Hill house on Tuesday.
Suspicion surrounds a blaze that engulfed a red-zoned property in Kaiapoi, north of Christchurch, overnight.
A huge bushfire raging on the western boundary of Yosemite National Park has led California's Governor, Jerry Brown, to declare a state of emergency.
Colleagues of a Wellington firefighter badly burned after becoming separated from his mates during an industrial blaze are "pretty cut up" over what happened.
A firefighter seriously burnt in a blaze north of Wellington yesterday is being transferred to Auckland for specialist treatment.
An Auckland grandmother has been charged with murder by arson, stealing $12,500 from her employer and damaging their products by fire on three occasions.
An investigation and a separate review will be carried out into today's blaze in Petone that left a firefighter in hospital with burns.
Three members of the Austrian ski team here for the Winter Games have been left without passports or spare clothes after a fire engulfed their luxury lodge.
A motorcycle cop's bike burst into flames when he stopped to question a Christchurch motorist this morning.
Firefighters saved two Masterton homes from flames with only moments to spare after a blaze engulfed a residential garage yesterday.