Fire

Suspicions have surfaced over a major blaze at a vacant central Christchurch building today after a person was heard moving around inside the building before it went up in flames.

Helicopters and ground crew are working to dampen down hotspots following a large tussock and forest fire which began on Friday night east of Hyde.

Residents of a central Christchurch flat have escaped uninjured during a fire that broke out overnight and gutted the building.

A fast-growing wildfire that blew up overnight in Colorado has forced 11,000 people from their homes and was threatening popular summer camping grounds beneath Pikes Peak, billed as the most visited mountain in North America.

The grandfather of New Zealand triplets killed in a blaze at a daycare centre in a Doha shopping mall says he struggles to see how he will ever be happy again.

A fire has gutted a shop in a Christchurch mall overnight.

Dunedin people have rallied behind a family who lost all their possessions in a recent house fire.

Police are treating as suspicious a fire in a property in Dunedin on Tuesday night.

Firefighters removed an elderly man from a Tauranga house after neighbours spotted a blaze in his kitchen early this morning.

Police are investigating just how a Gisborne house fire started last night.

Fire ripped through the top of a part-built skyscraper that is set to become Europe's tallest building and form the pinnacle of Moscow's new business district under plans to turn the Russian capital into a global financial centre.