Hazardous materials appliances attended a fire in a block of flats in Te Kauwhata at 7.21am this morning.

A gas heater is being looked at as the possible cause of a fire in the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata, which claimed the life of a 70-year-old man.

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.

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.

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.

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.