
Fires in Timaru, Christchurch overnight investigated
Fire investigators are looking into the causes of fires in Timaru and Christchurch overnight.
Fire investigators are looking into the causes of fires in Timaru and Christchurch overnight.
Police say two men seen speeding away in a boat from a huge fire at Cecil Peak near Queenstown have denied any involvement.
Authorities are investigating a raft of suspicious fires in the South Island overnight.
A severely burnt Dunedin man wants to thank those who helped him as his skin melted following a 'freak accident'.
Firefighters were this morning still battling a large blaze which ripped through hundreds of hay bales and threatened a house near Ashburton overnight.
Fire fighters are currently working to clean up a chemical spill in Christchurch.
Port Chalmers rugby players rushed to help a screaming man who was badly burnt in a car fire yesterday.
The operator of a Northland geothermal plant has denied Fire Service reports 30,000 litres of gas is leaking after an explosion at the site.
Victoria police are hunting an arsonist who set fire to an open-cut coal mine that has cloaked a nearby town in noxious smog.
Swathes of smoke can be seen drifting across East Auckland due to a derelict vehicle and pellet fire in Mt Wellington.
Two suspicious fires which occurred in South Auckland overnight are under investigation.
Canterbury firefighters didn't get much sleep last night with six rural fire around Ashburton, four of which may be linked and are being treated as suspicious.
Two people have suffered mild smoke inhalation but are otherwise lucky to walk away after the boat they were on caught fire near Waiheke Island
A fire that gutted a woman's home on Auckland's North Shore also left her neighbour homeless after the blaze spread upstairs in the building.
Neighbours rushed to the rescue of an Auckland woman's home as rubbish piled up in the backyard burst into flames damaging the next-door property this morning.