11/02/2021
| Operational
| National
Last week, the Court of Appeal advised that the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union’s (NZPFU’s) application for leave to appeal the Employment Court decision will be heard in the week beginning 8 March.
26/01/2021
| Operational,
Event
| National
The Ranfurly urban volunteer fire brigade has amalgamated with the Maniototo component of the Blackstone rural brigade, bringing 52 volunteer firefighters into one team.
21/01/2021
| Operational
| National
The Request for Proposal, (RFP), for suppliers to design a fit for purpose solution for our next generation Type 3 appliance closed last month and the project team is impressed with the responses.
19/01/2021
| Operational
| National
Many of our people were hard at work over the busy festive season keeping communities safe. Between 14 December and 11 January, our crews attended 7,152 incidents across New Zealand, which is around 120 fewer than the same period last year.
14/01/2021
| Operational
| National
Haumoana Volunteer Fire Brigade has been delivered two brand new trucks – a fire appliance and a tanker.
13/01/2021
| Operational
| National
Fire and Emergency only buys Dry Powder and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) extinguishers.
22/12/2020
| Operational,
Emergency management,
Community engagement
| National
Right off the back of a Fire and Emergency Simex, Area Manager Ken Cooper arrived home only to get right back into emergency-mode a week later, responding to the Hawke’s Bay flooding.
15/12/2020
| Operational
| National
Twelve firefighters from around the country tested the next generation Level 2s at Rotorua at the end of November.
04/12/2020
| Operational,
Emergency management,
Risk reduction,
Community engagement
| National
The Risk Reduction team is now consulting on new proposed fire plans in three trial areas – Northland, Hawke’s Bay and Otago. The development and consultation of these plans are a requirement of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 (the Act).
03/12/2020
| Operational,
Training
| National
43 new technicians, medics and logisticians have joined Fire and Emergency’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team.