Fire

Firefighters have been working to put out a huge timber fire which broke out at a rubbish and recycling plant in Onehunga on Wednesday.

FENZ has closed Victoria Street, and crews are expected to… Audio

Cyclone Jasper has caused the worst flooding in and around Cairns in far north Queensland. Karen Middleton says the Bureau of Meteorology is facing strong criticism for failing to forecast the massive… Audio

A fire at a 48-home Kāinga Ora development in Auckland's East Tāmaki is being treated as suspicious and is under investigation by police. The fire broke out in one block of the development early… Video, Audio

By Max Rashbrooke: While the fatal fire at Loafers Lodge has reinforced calls for greater scrutiny of boarding houses, the warning signals have been around for years. Audio

A fire has completely gutted an iconic warehouse building in Wellington's Shelly Bay on the Miramar Peninsula, which has been the site of years of drama and controversy.

A hotly contested housing… Video, Audio

A massive fire at a South Auckland scrap metal yard could burn for another 24 hours.

Fire and Emergency risk reduction and investigations manager Pete Gallagher talks to Lisa Owen. 

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Sims Metal chief operating officer David Burrows is based in Australia. He has apologised for the disruption caused and says the company will conduct a full investigation. Video, Audio

A massive fire in Auckland has sent huge clouds of toxic smoke into the air, forcing people to stay inside and causing major disruption.

The fire broke out in a scrap metal yard in Ōtāhuhu overnight… Video, Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

The Loafers Lodge fire 16 May 2023

As specialist teams were removing two more bodies from the charred ruins of Loafers Lodge. a man was appearing in court charged with arson over the fire than killed them.

Four bodies have now been… Video, Audio

Residents displaced by the Loafers Lodge fire are now faced with the reality of losing their homes, a sense of community, and even their friends.

Support service organisations in Wellington are… Video, Audio

Police are now treating the fatal fire at a Wellington hostel as arson, and say it was not the first fire there that night.

The government has also announced it will look into whether building… Video, Audio

Let's return to the devastating fire in Wellington now. Loafers Lodge was home to some deportees from Australia, known as 501s.

501 deportee advocate Filipa Payne talks to Lisa Owen.

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Firefighters first on the scene are struggling with what they encountered.

The property housed a range of tenants, some of them had lived there for years, others not so long, and many of them were… Video, Audio

A Loafers Lodge resident has described crawling on the floor through thick black smoke and running for his life, to get out of the burning building.

The resident, who didn't want to give his name… Video, Audio

Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau talks to Checkpoint reporter Jimmy Ellingham about the devastating fire at Loafers Lodge on Aidelaide Road.

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Residents of Wellington's Loafers Lodge were woken to plumes of smoke and roaring flames billowing out of the hostel in the early hours of this morning.

Footage sent in to RNZ by one of the residents… Video, Audio

"It doesn't get worse than this." That from a fire commander at the blaze that's claimed multiple lives at Loafer's Lodge on Wellington's Adelaide Road.

The building appears to have caught fire just… Video, Audio