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Pupil in court after fire damages classrooms

A student at a top private school has been charged with arson after a fire that damaged two classrooms.

Passing mate helps save victim of fire

Organisers undeterred by fireworks mishap

Two hurt in fiery display

Panic erupts as a fireworks show in Whakatane goes wrong during a hectic night across the country for fire services.

Teens burned in garage explosion

Renowned professor killed in fire

The house fire in which renowned medical professor Sir Don Beaven has died was not suspicious, say police.

Claims firefighters drinking before fatal blaze

Judge's husband dies in stables blaze

The man killed in a fire on his South Auckland farm was the husband of district court judge Jane Lovell-Smith.

Firemen's drinking queried

Body in burning halfway house

Loud blasts heard at tavern fire

Fire rips through oil depot

Firefighters back at Tiwai Point

Fire burns DOC land in Southland

Investigators study church fire

Suspicious fire at church