Fires

Dozens of firefighters converged on the Department of Conservation's Craig Burn reserve beside Lake Hawea and Glen Dene Station late yesterday afternoon to battle a big rural burn.

An early morning fire in an isolated Coromandel peninsula community is being treated as suspicious.

A Moeraki home was gutted by fire on Thursday night, despite efforts by three fire brigades with about 20 firefighters to save it.

Two young Queenstown locals put out their neighbours' house fire yesterday morning before the fire service arrived at the scene.

Police say the public should not be concerned after the sixth arson attack on a Caversham, Dunedin, house yesterday morning.

An otherwise incident-free year in the student area was blighted by a spate of couch fires on Saturday night.

Police believe it is possible someone is targeting the owner of a weatherboard villa in College St, Caversham, which has been hit by suspicious fires for the fourth time in about two months.

Police are investigating at least three suspicious small fires in Dunedin on Saturday.

Two Queenstown Volunteer Fire Brigade crews used an extractor to clear smoke from a smouldering fire at the Internet/Laundry, on Gorge Rd, reported just after 9am yesterday.

Wellington fire fighters have dealt with at least a dozen suspicious fires since Saturday afternoon leading to multiple police investigations.