MetService app now delivers Extreme Fire Danger and Severe Weather Warnings
MetService app users are now able to opt in to receive real-time Extreme Fire Danger and Severe Weather Warning notifications.
MetService app users are now able to opt in to receive real-time Extreme Fire Danger and Severe Weather Warning notifications.
The next phase of the You’re Cooked campaign has kicked off, running through to February 2024.
A new ‘How to safely burn a pile of vegetation’ video has been developed to show rural and semi-rural communities how they can minimise risk when carrying out pile burns on their property, a common way to get rid of old vegetation before the summer season.
With lithium-ion battery fire incidents on the rise in Aotearoa and around the world, Fire and Emergency is taking an education and prevention approach to reduce the harm caused by lithium-battery fires.
This year, forecasts point to El Niño being one of the main climate drivers for the coming wildfire season, with an increased chance for warmer, drier, and windier conditions in eastern areas of the country and more rain in the west.
On 15 August, in Levin, we staged a controlled house fire that was broadcast live on Seven Sharp.
This August, we are continuing to target NZ households to prompt them to install smoke alarms in every bedroom, hallway and living area and create a 3-Step-Escape Plan.
Tune into Seven Sharp tomorrow at 7pm to see our people showcase the devastation a fire can cause in the home.
Launched in November 2022, You’re Cooked campaign aims to prevent house fires by encouraging the Disengaged audience cooking while impaired by either drugs or alcohol to ‘stay off the stove’.
O’Week season is in full swing across the motu and our teams have been popping up at universities in Auckland, Waikato, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago and Invercargill to engage one of our high-risk audience – young people living in rental accommodation – and encourage them to ‘stay off the stove’ if they’re drunk or high.