A furniture factory in Christchurch collapsed before firefighters were able to make a start to battle the blaze which broke out late last night.

CCTV footage of a fire at the Waikato Museum which burned carvings and part of a waka showed it started when rags of linseed oil spontaneously combusted.

One person is receiving hospital treatment following a house fire in Porirua tonight.

Relief after a fire at Hamilton's Waikato Museum caused only minor damage.

A specialist fire investigator has been called to investigate a blaze at the Waikato Museum in Hamilton this evening.

A 3-year-old Paengaroa girl saved her family from potential tragedy after she alerted her sleeping father to a fire that destroyed half of their rented home on Thursday night.

Cooking oil left burning on stoves has caused serious burns to an elderly lady and left a young family homeless in two separate house fires in Whangarei over the weekend.

The death of a 39-year-old at an onshore oil rig in Taranaki today remains unexplained.

A 96-year-old woman had to be rescued from the 11th floor of a central Auckland apartment building yesterday when a large fire broke out.

A Riwaka man has been helicoptered to Hutt Hospital's specialist burns unit after falling into a bonfire in the early hours of this morning.

Fire crews are battling a house fire in Wanganui this morning.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with arson over a huge fire that destroyed part of a Wellington storage facility.

A huge fire has engulfed a Chilean port city registered as a World Heritage site for its historic collection of wooden buildings and railways.

A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in the colorful port city of Valparaiso, killing at 11 people and destroying over 500 homes.

'There's quite a lot of devastation in there'. It took more than 90 firefighters to bring a massive blaze in Gore under control at a commercial building.