Three fire trucks and ambulance staff are at the scene, on Cumberland Crescent in Welcome Bay.

Two children have been treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire near Rotorua this morning.

Emergency services are on their way to a car fire on the South Western motorway in Auckland, where the driver had a lucky escape.

Firefighters have brought a large blaze at a recyling plant in Hamilton's industrial district under control.

Firefighters have been applauded for their efforts to get a man out of a burning car in Christchurch late last night.

A house on the Otago Peninsula was "extensively damaged" by a fire overnight.

A firefighter has been injured dealing with a blaze at a state house in Lower Hutt last night.

South Waikato police and fire safety officers are investigating the cause of a blaze at a vacant Tokoroa house early today.

Arcing powerlines have sparked a house fire in Warkworth this morning.

A driver escaped unhurt after the logging truck he was driving caught fire in Northland this morning.

A tow truck with a van on its trailer have been destroyed in a suspicious blaze at an Auckland automotive yard.

A car on fire set alight a house in the West Coast last night, with two young children making a lucky escape from the inferno.

A laundromat in Kerikeri has been damaged by fire today.

One person was treated for smoke inhalation late tonight after a fire in Sandringham, Auckland.

When a Waikato woman wanted to rid her property of a derelict house, she had the perfect idea: get her Fire Service colleagues to burn it down.

Emergency services are at the scene of an explosion in a Wellington apartment.

Police have charged a 22-year-old man with arson in relation to three fires in Westport's main street in recent months.

Kiwi woman Lucretia Britt says she knows her home and business are still standing in fire-ravaged Fort McMurray, Canada, but has no idea of how badly damaged they are.

A man has been remanded in custody after a fire ripped through a Christchurch church yesterday.

Family devastated after their new house burns down just a week after they moved it onto their land.

A bush fire over 1km long is raging in the Canterbury Plains this evening, the Fire Service says.

A heroic Mangere East woman who saved her three young nieces from a fire yesterday slept in the garage last night, after the blaze gutted their home.

A man is being sought by police after a house in Invercargill was destroyed by fire earlier this week.

A mother and her five children had their Mangere home destroyed in a fire this morning but luckily no one was hurt thanks to a working smoke alarm.

A volunteer fireman, paged to attend a car fire, was shocked when he stepped out of his house and realised it was his own vehicle ablaze.

Fire fighters in Invercargill are battling a large house fire this evening.

A man dragged from the garage of his Tokoroa property after his house caught fire has died.

More than 1,000 firefighters and 100 helicopters are battling the huge fire that forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray in western Canada. But officials say they need rain to make real progress.