The mother of a teenager who was found on fire outside his Tauranga home is desperate for answers.

A dormitory at the University of Auckland was evacuated after a small fire this afternoon.

A bar owner reportedly doused in petrol before he escaped his burning hotel had previous run-ins with gang members, locals say.

Dozens of moaning and badly burned survivors from a massive tanker blast that killed at least 230 people recovered in hospitals and clinics across eastern Congo, two days after the wrecked fuel truck exploded on a rural highway.

A hotelier who was doused with petrol during a robbery was lucky to escape with his life as the building was gutted by fire.

A man was doused in petrol but managed to crawl to safety as his hotel burned to the ground after a robbery this morning.

Police hope to speak to Jacqueline Blackbourn's ex-partner, who is now out of an induced coma, in the next day or two.

A woman who died in a mystery house fire on Auckland's North Shore was an English immigrant who had lived in NZ for 20 years.

An 85-year-old man rescued from his burning Napier home late last night died from his injuries today.