
Woman in court today after suspicious house fire
A woman will appear in court today after a suspicious Invercargill house fire where firefighters pulled out an unconscious occupant.
A woman will appear in court today after a suspicious Invercargill house fire where firefighters pulled out an unconscious occupant.
A member of the public chased an arsonist attempting to set fire to a vacant Waikato building.
Two buildings in the North Island have been gutted by fire this morning. Fire fighters had to be decontaminated for asbestos.
A woman was just moments from death when she was rescued from a house fire in Invercargill early this morning, one of the firefighters who saved her says.
Plumes of smoke were sent into the air as fire burst out at a liquor store in Mt Wellington this afternoon.
A garage, a ute and a fishing launch have been destroyed in two fires in the Far North.
A blaze which tore through a house and car in Tokoroa this morning is being treated as suspicious.
A young mother who died in an house fire had disconnected one of her smoke alarms earlier in the evening because it kept beeping, according to a coroner's finding.
Police say charges will not be laid in relation to a car fire in Gisborne that badly burned two children.
An Auckland family's home has been gutted by fire just six months after they moved in.
Twenty people were killed in avoidable house fires in the past 12 months and in most cases, there was no working smoke alarm, the Fire Service says.
Authorities are investigating a house fire which occurred on Auckland's North Shore last night.
A fire at Christchurch Hospital this morning was sparked by workers using a grinder.
The residents of a Christchurch home lost most of their possessions in one of three fires in the South Island since last night.
Oamaru boy Aljay Rankin, 10, is being praised for his clear thinking and quick action in saving his sister and home from a potentially disastrous fire.
LPG cylinders helped fuel a massive house blaze in West Auckland that took firefighters hours to bring under control.
Faced with a quickly escalating fire at her home, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett grabbed what she thought were her dearest personal items - her Cabinet papers.
The father of 2-year-old New Zealand triplets who died in a Qatar mall fire just over a year ago has expressed his relief at guilty verdicts in the case.
A firefighter became trapped in a fatal house fire when a ceiling collapsed on top of him, pinning him to the floor.
Police are working to identify a person found dead after a house fire in Hamilton today.