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Girl alerts dad to fire

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.

Report into fire that burned firefighter released

Two injured in early morning house fire

Fire ravages treasured art school building

A blaze ripped through one of the world's top art schools yesterday, damaging a historic building designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Lightning razes historic homestead

A lightning strike caused a large fire which razed an historic homestead to the ground near Glenorchy this morning.

Suspicious fire damages Auckland primary school

Cooking oil causes two fires

Cooking oil left burning on stoves has caused serious burns to an elderly lady and left a young family homeless in two separate house fires in Whangarei over the weekend.

Death on drilling rig due to natural causes

Whangarei port evacuated after ammonia leak

Elderly woman rescued from apartment fire

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.

Man stumbles into bonfire

A Riwaka man has been helicoptered to Hutt Hospital's specialist burns unit after falling into a bonfire in the early hours of this morning.

Fire consumes house in Wanganui

Fire crews are battling a house fire in Wanganui this morning.

Rest home evacuated after cleaning chemicals mix

Mother and child escape fire through window

Man denies starting Wellington shed fire

A 34-year-old man has been charged with arson over a huge fire that destroyed part of a Wellington storage facility.

'This is the worst catastrophe I've seen'

A huge fire has engulfed a Chilean port city registered as a World Heritage site for its historic collection of wooden buildings and railways.