Fire

New Zealand triplets have died in a devastating fire which killed 19 people in a shopping mall in Qatar.

A fire has ripped through a bedroom in a unit in Whangarei this morning.

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

Fire crews will inspect a scrub fire burning on the Port Hills in Christchurch at first light this morning.

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

Police are investigating separate house and garage fires at a Nelson property overnight.

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

Four people had to be forced from their burning house in Auckland by a rescuer today who went inside to help them.

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.