Aerial photographs taken by the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) show the scale and spread of a bushfire that is threatening nature reserves in the Chatham Islands.

A seagull has been rescued by the New Zealand Fire Service at NZME Headquarters in Auckland. Credit: Doug Sherring

Eva De Pelsemaeker is reunited with her adventurous huntaway Bowie after a rabbit led him over a cliff in Dunedin. Credit: Gregor Richardson

Smoke billows out from Sky City Casino while Fire Trucks gather around the base of the building.

A garage on Vogel street has been engulfed by flames. Source - Supplied by Facebook/Undercover Palmy

A car used in an aggravated robbery has caught fire to​day at the intersection of Great South Road and East Tamaki Road, Papatoetoe.

Helen Lee talks about the bush fire that destroyed her Coromandel home last summer.

Cockle Bay resident Martin Mackenzie talks about the value of smoke detectors. Video / Peter Meecham

Senior Station Officer Chris Lind speaks from the scene of an apartment fire at Augustus Terrace in Parnell. / Video by Jason Oxenham

Plane making an emergency landing hit a fisherman standing on the Whakatane beach.

The house was extensively damaged by the blaze.

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.

Over 200L of diesel has been spilt in a boat in Auckland. The Fire Service were called at 11.15am to the spill in Orams Marine Village

Whanganui senior firefighter Tanja Grunwald is off to the World Firefighter Combat Challenge in the United States. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Flames swept through the house on McKinstry Ave, Mangere, where Cathylyn Palaa lived with her brother and his wife and six children - one of about 3200 house fires every year. The house was destroyed and some of its remains are now mixed in with these words.