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'The risk of wildfire is real': Firefighters urge fireworks caution

Minor incidents are already stacking up, and firefighters don't want a bigger one.

Beach blaze: Mop-up after fireworks started massive beach blaze to take days

Fire that threatened beach community reignites calls to ban fireworks.

Cause of massive fire revealed, NZ paying top dollar for meth & Pakistan PM assassination attempt | Focus Morning Bulletin: 4 November, 2022

What started the Canterbury blaze, concern over New Zealand’s meth market and former Pakistan PM caught in an assassination attempt in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Canterbury beach blaze

The evacuated residents of the Woodend Beach Holiday Park will be allowed to return home as aerial reconnaissance of the vast Canterbury beach blaze shows fire investigators focusing attention on its origins at a car park area. Video / TVNZ / George Heard

Canterbury beach blaze: 130 evacuees allowed to return home

Police have confirmed fireworks started the large beach fire.

Police following ‘good lines of inquiry’ into cause of fire

All have been 'successfully evacuated, all safely' with no reports of property damage

Massive blaze rips through Canterbury, student death mystery & Buy Now, Pay Later scrutinised | Focus Morning Bulletin: 3 November, 2022

Massive blaze rips across Canterbury beach, investigations continue into student’s unexplained death and the Government tackles buy now pay later schemes in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Fresh crews called in to fight massive blaze on Canterbury’s Pegasus Beach

More than 130 people have been evacuated.

Fire wreckage: SkyCity-Macquarie $220m car park deal collapses

SkyCity's car park deal with Macquarie falls through in repercussions from 2019 fire.

'Armageddon': Neighbour's horror at multi-building blaze - arson suspected

Houses and barns are affected at two locations on the same road.

Focus Morning Bulletin: 11 October, 2022

Explosions rock central Kyiv, co-governance referendum on the cards? And good news in time for your summer getaway in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

'We lost everything': Whānau of 9 sleeping in tents after fire destroys home

Lack of emergency housing compounds problems after homestead destroyed in fire.

Fire in abandoned Papatoetoe building 'suspicious'

An investigation is under way.

Battle against vegetation blaze continues as wind gusts threaten

Firefighters trying to contain vegetation fire above Glenorchy road near Queenstown.

'Dark day for Donegal': At least 10 dead in blast at gas station in Ireland

Eight people in hospital and several unaccounted for after the incident in Creeslough.

Hybrid electric car smouldering in a blaze

A hybrid electric car smouldering in a blaze. Video / Stewart Harris

Whānau home of 9 destroyed by fire in Muriwai, Gisborne

Whānau home of 9 destroyed by fire in Muriwai, Gisborne. Video / Supplied

Owner 'gutted' as road bike destroyed in inferno

Motorcyclist watches as bike razed by fire.