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.

The Fire Service has been at the scene of a house fire in Christchurch this morning.

A large scrub fire has engulfed a cliff-face in Opahi Bay, about 20km south of Warkworth, tonight.

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 multimillion-dollar luxury lodge in Whangamata's Wentworth Valley was engulfed by "a huge fireball" and destroyed early yesterday.

A private lodge in Coromandel was badly damaged by a large fire early this morning.

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.

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.

Firefighters have contained a large bush fire that came dangerously close to destroying the main power feed between the North and South Islands.

Two firefighters were injured, two houses destroyed and residents evacuated by helicopter as a bushfire was fanned by strong winds and raged out of control yesterday.

Fire fighters are battling a large fire in high winds in a remote bay east of Picton and say they have fears for public safety.