
Two children rescued from car fire
One child remains in hospital after two young children were pulled from a burning car in a Palmerston North supermarket carpark today.
One child remains in hospital after two young children were pulled from a burning car in a Palmerston North supermarket carpark today.
A fire lit in the early hours of this morning has damaged part of Auckland's St Mary's church.
Health and high fire danger alerts are coming into force as the heatwave that scorched Perth and ignited huge fires close to the city moves up the east coast.
A large fire at an Auckland primary school is being treated as suspicious, the fire service says.
A truck has caught on fire in Waikato blocking part of State Highway 27.
A female pedestrian has suffered life threatening injuries after being struck by a petrol tanker in central Dunedin this morning.
There's anger in Kurow after the town's famous 'Hay Family' was destroyed in a suspected arson attack.
A common kitchen feature has been blamed for fires which destroyed one home and badly damaged another in the past month.
A scrub fire has forced a halt to train traffic outside Hamilton.
A train is believed to have ignited a large blaze that destroyed a vast crop and threatened to spread into nearby areas of Chertsey in Ashburton yesterday, firefighters say.
A fire has broken out at a Manurewa business with reports of people possibly trapped inside. St John was called to the fire on Great South Road at 12.25pm today.
A New York City father began posting harrowing tweets online revealing how his high rise apartment building was burning below him - trapping him and his family inside.
A blaze that raged through 20ha of hand-planted pohutukawa forest yesterday has struck a blow to the small community of Karekare Beach on Auckland's west coast.
Firefighters battled a large scrub fire on Auckland's west coast on the road leading to the popular Karekare surf beach.
Firefighters are at a blaze in a vacant shop in rural Southland.
Australia was battling weather extremes yesterday with South Australia hit by its first tropical storm for 15 years, just as the state's north faced a catastrophic bushfire risk.
A Hamilton bistro has been destroyed by a fire today, devastating its owners.
A shed at a poultry factory on the outskirts of Levin was engulfed in flames this morning.
The lighting of outdoor fires in Christchurch and on Banks Peninsula will be restricted from today.