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Whoever lit the fire used many cardboard boxes and wooden pellets as fuel.

A Christchurch mall has been evacuated after a fire in a commercial oven.

Two neighbours banged frantically on doors, walls as fire consumed the house.

An Otara house is on fire. The fire brigade is trying to extinguish it.

Fire at Maui production plant part of routine operations.

Insurers are counting the cost after February's devastating blazes.

Firefighters from seven stations attended the blaze at Cerebos Gregg's Forth St factory.

The house was extensively damaged by the blaze.

Steve Askin was killed in a crash in the Port Hills while fighting fires near Sugar Loaf.

Forty firefighters worked to put out a blaze on the 12th storey of an apartment building.

A police scene guard remained outside the property overnight.

Fire investigators have still not determined if two fires on the Port Hills are arson.

Several fire crews have been sent to a Whatawhata Rd house fire in Hamilton.

Part of house collapses in fierce fire.

'It was really scary because when we pulled over, we only had two seconds to get out.'

Firefighters more likely to have fatal heart attacks as heat can make their blood clot.

Fast action by firefighters has saved Osmose NZ from destruction.

Children injured as Paris fireworks display turns to horror.

A large fire has broken out at the Show Girls strip club in downtown Auckland.

One person is being treated for smoke inhalation.

Police have confirmed the two men who died are believed to be tourists from Germany.

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.