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Furniture factory destroyed by fire
A furniture factory in Christchurch collapsed before firefighters were able to make a start to battle the blaze which broke out late last night.
Oil-soaked rags start museum fire
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.
Person in hospital after house fire in Porirua
One person is receiving hospital treatment following a house fire in Porirua tonight.
Only minor damage in Waikato Museum fire
Relief after a fire at Hamilton's Waikato Museum caused only minor damage.
Blaze at Waikato Museum
A specialist fire investigator has been called to investigate a blaze at the Waikato Museum in Hamilton this evening.
Girl alerts dad to fire
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.
Fire ravages treasured art school building
A blaze ripped through one of the world's top art schools yesterday, damaging a historic building designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Lightning razes historic homestead
A lightning strike caused a large fire which razed an historic homestead to the ground near Glenorchy this morning.
Cooking oil causes two fires
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.
Death on drilling rig unexplained
The death of a 39-year-old at an onshore oil rig in Taranaki today remains unexplained.
Homeowner injured putting out house fire
A person suffered facial burns following a house fire in Wainoni, Christchurch, this morning.
Elderly woman rescued from apartment fire
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.
Man stumbles into bonfire
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 consumes house in Wanganui
Fire crews are battling a house fire in Wanganui this morning.
Man denies starting Wellington shed fire
A 34-year-old man has been charged with arson over a huge fire that destroyed part of a Wellington storage facility.
'This is the worst catastrophe I've seen'
A huge fire has engulfed a Chilean port city registered as a World Heritage site for its historic collection of wooden buildings and railways.
Forest fires rage in Chile town
A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in the colorful port city of Valparaiso, killing at 11 people and destroying over 500 homes.
Firefighters battle Gore 'inferno'
'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.