10/02/2023
| Operational,
Emergency management
| National
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.
07/02/2023
| Operational
| National
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.
02/02/2023
| Operational,
Risk reduction,
Community engagement,
Strategic relationships
| National
FAIP is a free specialist intervention programme, delivered by trained firefighters, for taiohi (young people) who set fires.
26/01/2023
| Operational,
Safety, Health & Wellbeing
| National
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.
16/01/2023
| Operational
| National
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.
22/12/2022
| Operational,
Training
| National
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.
21/12/2022
| Operational,
Training
| National
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.
15/12/2022
| Operational
| National
As technology advances, so do the number of products and equipment options that would benefit Fire and Emergency frontline personnel.
14/12/2022
| Operational
| National
The CEO of Finnish company Esteri Group, which supplied us with our Hosemaster machine, was in New Zealand last month to oversee a big upgrade to the machine.
08/12/2022
| Operational,
Safety, Health & Wellbeing
| National
Recently Apple launched the iPhone 14 and a new generation of Apple Watches which include a feature called Automatic Crash Detection.