26/06/2024
| Operational
| National
Our crews and Specialist Water Rescue Team are onsite in Wairoa today assisting with the severe weather. Our thoughts go out to all people impacted by this event and we are thankful to our crews who have been extremely busy.
25/06/2024
| Operational
| National
The Aerial Appliance Procurement Project is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) for a “Training Coordinator” to assist the Project team to develop a Training Plan and a team of Aerial Trainers to train operational personnel on our new aerial appliances when they arrive in the country.
18/06/2024
| Operational
| National
The Uniform Retender Project has reached a significant milestone, recently choosing a preferred uniform supplier.
13/06/2024
| Operational,
Emergency management
| National
Yesterday was the first day of Exercise Rū Whenua – a national exercise designed to test New Zealand’s arrangements for responding to, and recovering from, a major earthquake.
05/06/2024
| Operational
| National
Scannable is a new safety equipment management system the Equipment and Logistics Team is implementing for all our line rescue and height safety personal protective equipment.
04/06/2024
| Operational
| National
Risk Reduction is currently leading the revision of the Firefighting Water Supply Code of Practice (the Code).
31/05/2024
| Operational,
Emergency management
| National
Congratulations to Fire and Emergency’s Urban Search and Rescue team NZL-01 for achieving their INSARAG External Reclassification (IER).
30/05/2024
| Operational
| National
Two of our people involved in the Aerial appliance procurement project recently returned from Finland where they checked over our new appliances.
30/05/2024
| Operational,
Emergency management
| National
This morning we sent a team of our urban search and rescue personnel to Papua New Guinea to help with the devastation caused by a major landslide in Enga Province on 24 May.
29/05/2024
| Training,
Operational,
Emergency management
| National
Te Kei recently held its three day SIMEX to train and test their capability to respond to a large incident.