
Lightning may have caused small fire at Wellington Zoo
A small fire in the roof of Wellington Zoo's cafe may have been caused by a lightning strike.
A small fire in the roof of Wellington Zoo's cafe may have been caused by a lightning strike.
A woman and her young nephew had a lucky escape after their home caught fire, causing severe damage to almost half the house.
"It was a shock", said 89-year-old Edna Harrison, but it didn't stop her walking into her neighbour's burning home to try to help him put out the blaze with a garden hose.
Eight people were rescued from a house fire in Auckland's suburb of Glen Eden this morning.
Christchurch fire crews were kept busy last night with two serious blazes across the city.
A woman who wanted to flee Christchurch after becoming embroiled with a gang and set fire in her own flat has been jailed for more than four years.
Fire safety officers will investigate a suspicious blaze at an unused timber mill at Kaitaia.
A police guard has been set up outside a derelict Greymouth house that was the target of a suspected arson attack early today.
The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park has become the fourth-largest conflagration in modern California history.
One house has been destroyed and another damaged after two fires in the South Island overnight.
A truck laden with newspapers ignited in a dramatic fire in Canterbury early this morning.
An Otago teenager is lucky to have escaped serious injury after a fireball erupted when she was cooking in a Pine Hill house on Tuesday.
Suspicion surrounds a blaze that engulfed a red-zoned property in Kaiapoi, north of Christchurch, overnight.
Police are investigating a suspicious fire at a Nelson pub over the weekend - the second blaze to hit the establishment in less than a year.
Fire investigators are trying to establish the cause of a large blaze at an Auckland factory last night.
A huge bushfire raging on the western boundary of Yosemite National Park has led California's Governor, Jerry Brown, to declare a state of emergency.
Colleagues of a Wellington firefighter badly burned after becoming separated from his mates during an industrial blaze are "pretty cut up" over what happened.