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.

Whanganui senior firefighter Tanja Grunwald is off to the World Firefighter Combat Challenge in the United States. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Flames swept through the house on McKinstry Ave, Mangere, where Cathylyn Palaa lived with her brother and his wife and six children - one of about 3200 house fires every year. The house was destroyed and some of its remains are now mixed in with these words.