Two Hamilton police officers are being praised for catching a man who leapt from the second floor of a burning building.

A house has gone up in flames in Queenstown this morning.

A planned birthday party for a 6-year-old has turned into a nightmare today when a family returned home to find their house in flames.

Fire has engulfed a Taranaki house this morning.

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 blaze ripped through one of the world's top art schools yesterday, damaging a historic building designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

A lightning strike caused a large fire which razed an historic homestead to the ground near Glenorchy this morning.

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 person suffered facial burns following a house fire in Wainoni, Christchurch, this morning.

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.