Focus Live: Fire and Emergency NZ on yesterday's false tsunami alert

Crews from around the region poured in to try to save the firefighter's home.

Crews from seven fire stations across the region have rushed to fight the fire.

Fire crews are fighting the blaze from above with a truck with a raised ladder.

Institutional investors from here and Australia meet SkyCity chief on Thursday.

The blaze is visible across the city with huge plumes of black smoke.

Focus: Two people treated for smoke inhalation in Queenstown house fire. Video / James Allen

Fire crews tackle classroom fire at Pakuranga Heights School the night before Term 2.

Fire has broken out in a church in Mt Eden. Fire crews early this evening were responding to a large fire at a church in Auckland's Mt Eden.

Emergency services attended a single-vehicle crash on Oaia Rd in Muriwai.

A body was found by firefighters tackling a blaze at a property in Papakura-Clevedon Road, South Auckland. / Brett Phibbs

Fire fighter, Josh Harrison, holds the title of fastest firefighter in Sky Tower challenge for seven consecutive years and this year going for eight. / Greg Bowker

Rescue teams worked frantically to free the trapped people.

Senior Station officer Gary Lane gives interview regarding the fire in Mt Eden.

A house was on fire on Clinkard Avenue in Rotorua on the evening of the 27th of February, 2018.

incredible footage of the raging fire at Molten Metals this morning. Source: Melissa Davis

Fire crews battle huge blaze at scrap metal yard. Source: Glen Easton and Karla Karaitiana

The New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules flew over the Chathams bushfire to help the Fire Emergency services map the scale of the blaze. This shows some of what they've been dealing with. Source: Twitter / @NZDefenceForce

Eva De Pelsemaeker is reunited with her adventurous huntaway Bowie after a rabbit led him over a cliff in Dunedin. Credit: Gregor Richardson

Smoke billows out from Sky City Casino while Fire Trucks gather around the base of the building.

A garage on Vogel street has been engulfed by flames. Source - Supplied by Facebook/Undercover Palmy

A car used in an aggravated robbery has caught fire to​day at the intersection of Great South Road and East Tamaki Road, Papatoetoe.

Helen Lee talks about the bush fire that destroyed her Coromandel home last summer.

Cockle Bay resident Martin Mackenzie talks about the value of smoke detectors. Video / Peter Meecham

Senior Station Officer Chris Lind speaks from the scene of an apartment fire at Augustus Terrace in Parnell. / Video by Jason Oxenham

New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS) and National Rural Fire Authority commission an independent operational review of the Port Hills fires to learn from their response to the event.

A woman has been freed after getting her leg stuck in a septic tank for nearly two hours.

Plane making an emergency landing hit a fisherman standing on the Whakatane beach.

The house was extensively damaged by the blaze.

Merv Neil says the blast felt like a big kick up the backside. As he struggled to his feet he was engulfed in an orange ball of flame. Shielding himself, he briefly looked up to see an enormous cloud of smoke in the sky.