New Zealand emergency services are battling a massive wildfire in Tongariro National Park on the North Island, where flames have already scorched an estimated 1,100 ...

Firefighters put out a caravan blaze on Saturday night. WGP 29Nov17 - BUSY WEEK: The Whanganui Fire Service encourages ...

Report from RNZ An overnight fire has significantly damaged Alicetown’s Community Centre in Lower Hutt. Four fire engines ...

New Zealand authorities said on Sunday that extra aircraft were being sent to fight an out-of-control wildfire that has burnt through around 1,100 hectares (4.2 square miles) of national park in the ...

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is considering cutting jobs and “stopping or slowing” activities as it seeks to save $50 million a year. It says the jobs of frontline firefighters are not at risk, but ...

A vegetation fire north of Auckland has been extinguished. Firefighters were called to a rural property in Wainui on Friday ...

A heritage railway is using water trains to help tackle the risk of fire, after one of the driest years on record. Trains have been pulling water tanks – equipped with pumps and sprayers – to damp ...

Plans to remove fire engines from a county's fire stations have been scaled down. However, proposals to close two fire ...

Two fire engines were sent, with Kent Police and the South East Coast Ambulance Service also at the scene. Just after 18:00 ...

A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesperson said three crews from Takapuna ... and then we came into the station and saw the smoke and the bus with the fire engines spraying it." A local resident ...