About 20 people ordered out of terminal.

Merv Neil says the blast felt like a big kick up the backside. As he struggled to his feet he was engulfed in an orange ball of flame. Shielding himself, he briefly looked up to see an enormous cloud of smoke in the sky.

A car and a bus carrying 16 tourists collided on the Te Anau-Milford Highway.

Interactive video show how difficult it is to escape a house fire.

Police don't know how many people were in car that caught fire after tourist-bus crash.

Residents were evacuated from a rest home last night after a stovetop element was left on.

Investigators are trying to find the cause of a fire that destroyed a bach.

Traffic remains banked up around Auckland Airport after an earlier truck fire.

Friends of a heavily pregnant woman who survived a house fire have created a Givealittle page.

Tributes are flowing for a young mum and dad and their baby son who were killed in a house fire.

A scrub fire has taken hold and is spreading, near Kawakawa in the Bay of Islands.

A fire at a house in Hamilton is now being treated as suspicious.

Police have revealed a baby and a woman died in a house fire on a large dairy farm early today.

Woolshed burning in Hawke's Bay.

Fire damage to the mountain bike park above Christchurch is "a lot worse" than originally thought.

Alarm may have been activated following wild weather.

A school that has been hit by fire and three tragic deaths this year has finally got some good news - a $4m repair job for its leaky classrooms.

Residents of coastal town, Whiritoa, had a lucky escape after 260mm of rain fell yesterday and created havoc in the Coromandel Peninsula. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A resident in a Moscow high-rise made a miraculous escape when she fell 60ft in a bid to escape an enormous blaze.

A house fire in Whanganui this afternoon led emergency services to cordon off a street. Barrack St was cordoned off from Somme Parade

No one was in the apartment at the time of the fire and it was too early to confirm the cause.

A separate fire was also burning near Ormondville in Manawatu.

A significant fire that broke out in a Tauranga plumbing company is now out.

A 400sq m bush blaze is burning beside a rural road near Ashburton.

A grateful community says thanks to the volunteer firefighters who fought the recent blazes in Christchurch.

A Kiwi couple have returned to total destruction after a blaze left their holiday home near Taupo in ashes.

Helicopters will return at dawn to see the damage caused by yesterday's wildfire north of Christchurch.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

Large fires near the Hanmer Springs turnoff on the Lewis Pass Rd have brought traffic to a standstill and cut power in the area.

Arsonists leave $40,000 bill after setting fire to slides in children's playground.