Spontaneously combusting tea towels caused a fire at a laundromat overnight.

Four people have been rescued off the roof of a burning building in South Auckland this morning.

A person who tried fighting a kitchen fire was taken to hospital after suffering smoke inhalation last night.

A stable block at the Omoto Racecourse was razed by an early morning arson early today.

Fire crews arrived "in the nick of time" after a blaze broke out at The Bog Irish Bar in Dunedin last night.

Four people from Waikato suffered from smoke inhalation after they moved an outdoor fire brazier indoors early this morning.

Firefighters were called to the scene of a fire in Wellington early this morning.

A chimney fire attended in Westport last night has highlighted the danger of people taking batteries out of smoke alarms to be used in other gadgets.

A woman trapped inside a burning Auckland home yesterday morning said the four people sleeping in the house when the blaze broke out are lucky to be alive.

Tenant John Williams was in hospital being treated for a suspected heart attack when he was told his house had caught fire today.

Nine fire trucks were called to the scene of a fire in Berhampore in Wellington this morning.

The two men injured in an explosion at a South Auckland house yesterday remain in a stable at Middlemore hospital this morning.

Six fire trucks were sent to the scene of the fire in New Lynn.

Smoke alarms saved four people from their "smoke logged" Christchurch home early this morning.

Fire investigators are looking into a fire that took hold in the Auckland suburb of Avondale last night.

A fire is a woodshed in under investigation this morning after a person was seriously injured in the blaze.

Fire crews are at the scene of a house fire in the Auckland suburb of Three Kings.

Fire services were at the scene of a fatal house fire in Mt Wellington.

One person has been taken to hospital after a small fire broke out in the lunchroom of a factory in Auckland today.

“Non-suspicious” faulty electrics was behind a blaze that last night damaged Auckland's historic St James theatre for the second time in a decade.

Jessica Bensemann had been home from hospital with her newborn son less than 12 hours when her Samsung washing machine went up in smoke and destroyed the bathroom.

People are asking people to check they aren't using appliances that have been recalled after a washing machine fire over the weekend.

A fire at Whakatane Intermediate School last night caused serious damage to one classroom.

A man has been taken to hospital with serious burns after a fire in a west Auckland garage tonight.

Investigators probing a blaze that destroyed most of a historic Waikato winery will be back at first light to look into the cause.

Flames and smoke from the fiery blaze at a historic Waikato winery could be seen on the horizon from kilometres away.

Fire investigators are at a mechanical workshop in Christchurch after a blaze tore through the building early this morning.

No one was injured in a fire which destroyed a garage in Auckland overnight.