Pureora DoC staff will work from different offices after lightning destroyed their base.

Houses have been struck by lightning and two people have been rescued from floodwaters.

The two-storey hotel was already badly damaged when it burned last night.

This is the tragic final photo of a festival-goer running into flames before he died.

A fire at a Te Kuiti sawmill has reignited from last night.

Twenty fire-fighters were sent to battle the blaze on Tweed St in Roslyn.

Police are evacuating nearby residents as fire rips through the three-storey block.

Riwaka was hit by four suspicious blazes and a burglary.

Police would like to know who killed a Tirau grandmother.

Fourteen appliances and over 50 firefighters tackled a high rise blaze tonight.

Fire crews are battling an early morning blaze in a cow shed.

A person has suffered burn injuries in a gas bottle explosion near Tekapo.

A house in Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt, was severely damaged in a fire this afternoon.

Teen fled burning tower with study notes, took 9am exam in the same clothes she left in.

Police want to hear from a man whose car had broken down close to where a fire killed 3.

A West Harbour firefighter returned to base yesterday to find his car and wallet stolen.

Six fire appliances are battling the blaze on Nelson St.

One patient was in a critical condition and the other had burns to the face and hands.

A rebuild worker reveals how he broke into a blazing house in an attempt to save a man.

Fifteen fire engines have been called to a factory fire at Hellers sausage factory in Wiri

A boarding house operator has been fined $1,500 for failing to install fire alarms.

Hazard reduction burns on the outskirts of Sydney is causing headaches for city.

Marlborough Lines is being blamed for a fire caused when a felled tree hit powerlines.

A house fire in Christchurch this morning has left one person dead.

A man made it out of the burning house alive but a woman was unable to escape.

A person was sleeping inside when fire broke out in an Auckland industrial building.

Fire engulfed a Nelson property with one person suffering burns.

Fire engulfs a home in the South Island.

Emergency services are at a house fire on Ormiston Rd, South Auckland.

New Zealand firefighters getting ready to help Canadian counterparts battle wildfires.