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Massive fire still burning in south Canterbury

A massive blaze has engulfed the hills above Waimate in south Canterbury and tonight continues to burn.

Huge fire at Waimate Gorge

Stretched firefighters battle two large blazes

Stretched Canterbury firefighters are battling two large scrub fires, one in Rolleston and one in Waimate.

Firefighters battle 120 hectare scrub fire

Firefighters are continuing to battle a 120 hectare scrub fire in Waimate, which has now spread into forest.

Family hit by second fire in two years

Man in coma after Napier fire

Large Foxton fire threatened houses, pine plantation

Explosives house site 'safe'

Rain helps douse fires in Israel

Prospects bleak for Te Aroha workers

'They're calling it a seasonal lay-off which is bull,' a worker at Silver Fern Farm's fire-hit Te Aroha factory says.

Nearly half meatworks' staff will be laid off

About 160 of the 350 workers at Silver Fern Farms' Waikato beef slaughter plant at Te Aroha are likely to only be paid a minimum wage until Christmas.

Scrub fires raging in central North Island

Meat works CEO meets with anxious workers

The 200 workers left jobless after a massive fire gutted a Waikato freezing works remain cautiously optimistic.

Contractor's saw sparks blamed for meat plant blaze

Sparks from a contractor's saw are believed to have ignited the fire that gutted a Waikato freezing works.

Large warehouse blaze on North Shore

Pike River: Cooling operation underway

An operation has begun to extinguish the fire coming from the vent shaft of the Pike River mine and cool the surrounding concrete pad, using water pumped up from a nearby creek.