Fire

A Taihape farm worker who was killed in a house fire despite a passerby's efforts to save him has been named by police.

Panic broke out among students at the University of Auckland's Epsom campus this morning as a ferocious fire broke out in the cafeteria.

The body of a man killed in a house fire near Taihape overnight was recovered from the scene this afternoon.

A 100-year-old woman has been rescued from a large house fire in Gore this morning.

A man has been badly burnt and a street closed down after an explosion at a suspected P lab in Bay of Plenty.

A north Balclutha house was gutted by fire last night.

A second man has died as a result of a house fire in Tokoroa on Tuesday.

Ground crews and two helicopters are battling a forestry fire in south Wairarapa.

Firefighters are battling a scrub fire in a remote part of rural Waikato this morning.

Two 14-year-old girls are being spoken to by police after a large scrub fire which forced the evacuation of a shopping mall on Auckland's North Shore.