COVID-19 | The Portal

If you can't find the information you are looking for in these pages, check with your managers first. Email covid@fireandemergency.nz if they couldn't answer your question.

Latest updates Link

The link in the title above takes you to a live page that includes new updates from Friday to Friday inclusive.

More information about using Zoom for meetings

Information for incident response

This page covers medical response, short crewing, availability, turnout and PPE

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Non-response activities

This page has information about how we manage our non-response business-as-usual activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving from Alert Level 4 to 3 and beyond.

Helping improve our emergency management response

This page has a feedback form so you can tell us your observations and experiences of our emergency management response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Your feedback will help us...

Information for leaders (login may be required)

Fire and Emergency COVID-19 Transition plan (non Service Delivery sites)

This page has the transition plan for all Fire and Emergency branches.

COVID-19 Information video series

This page has some great informational videos from our people, explaining the nature of COVID-19 and talking about information and demonstrating procedures for our people on the front-line.

COVID-19 Operational structures and remits

This page holds the information about the structures supporting the Fire and Emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feeling unwell?

Information about what to do if you are (or someone in your bubble is) unwell, either with COVID-19 or another cold or flu-like illness.

Keeping yourself and those around you safe

Welfare and wellbeing

This page has information about how we can all take care of our our welfare, our physical and psychological wellbeing throughout the COVID-19 situation and response.

Executive updates

This page has messages from our Chief Executive and our Board.

Working from home

This page has advice for workers and managers about working from home. Now that we are at Alert Level 1, if staff still have a need to work from home,...

Childcare support

There is support for essential workers to access childcare if they are unable to make their own arrangements. This page has information about who is eligible.