Brigades receive new Incident Support Vehicles
Whangārei, Washdyke, and Rotorua Brigades have each received a brand new Incident Support Vehicle (ISV) which is used to carry bulk equipment to incidents.
Whangārei, Washdyke, and Rotorua Brigades have each received a brand new Incident Support Vehicle (ISV) which is used to carry bulk equipment to incidents.
COVID-19 has been identified within the community and emergency response personnel in the Hawke’s Bay following the impacts of ex-tropical Cyclone Gabrielle.
We have started work to review the Memorandum of Understanding we have with St John.
If you usually use fireinfounit@fireandemergency.nz or fireinfo@fireandemergency.nz to communicate with the Fire Information Unit, please delete them from your email address book and use the new email address: rcg@fireandemergency.nz
Kia ora koutou,
I’d like to update you on our contribution to the international response efforts currently underway in Türkiye and Syria after the devastating 7. 8 magnitude earthquake on 6 February 2023.
A team of three is heading off to Australia to evaluate the decontamination techniques, equipment, and technologies used over there and assess what will work best for Fire and Emergency.
FAIP is a free specialist intervention programme, delivered by trained firefighters, for taiohi (young people) who set fires.
Fire and Emergency has a partnership agreement with My Health Hub to deliver health/medical response-related topics to our people once a month in a webinar.
This is a reminder that the Working Safely in Water Project is seeking applicants for Specialist Water Response Teams to kickstart the in-water response capability for Fire and Emergency.
A small team visited Watercare’s Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant and had a tour of the plant including the Reactor Clarifiers (RCs), where the biological treatment of wastewater occurs.