Operational review published - Vegetation Incident, Nenthorn

Fire and Emergency has today published an operational review by our Operational Assurance team on a vegetation incident at Nenthorn in Otago during March 2024.

A few minutes after midnight on 11 March 2024, Fire and Emergency’s Southern Communications Centre (Comcen) received a call to a vegetation fire at 969 Nenthorn Road, Nenthorn. This location is approximately halfway between Middlemarch and the Oceana Gold Macraes mine in Otago. The fire lasted from 11 to 14 March with the loss of a woolshed and the self-evacuation of occupants from houses.

Read the report on the Portal.

Operational Assurance team and operational reviews

While a review considers the application of Fire and Emergency policy, procedures, and relevant operational instructions, the primary focus is to share knowledge, learning, and experiences with officers and firefighters. Operational reviews focus on the facts of an incident, identify critical findings, and inform senior managers where improvements are needed, or corrective actions are required. Reviews will identify general findings related to strategy, tactics, leadership, agency and community engagement and activities that worked well to support learning within Fire and Emergency.