19/05/2023
| Operational,
Safety, Health & Wellbeing
| National
Our next My Health Hub webinar is ‘Basic Life Support and Emergencies for Infants’ and will be held Wednesday, 24 May, between 7 and 8pm hosted by Natalie Cowley, Nurse Educator, Children’s Emergency Department, Starship Child Health and Cam Grylls, our Senior Specialist, Medical Health.
17/05/2023
| Operational,
Event
| National
The Institution of Fire Engineers’ Information Series features monthly presentations on topics of interest in firefighting. This month’s presentation will be held on Thursday, 25 May from 7pm-8pm and will feature Dr Claire Benson talking about hydrogen safety.
11/05/2023
| Operational
| National
There is lots to read including the first round of training for our Specialist Water Response teams, a simulated 'aeroplane crash' in Wellington, and our response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Gabrielle.
10/05/2023
| Operational
| National
It is a year since former Internal Affairs Minister, Hon. Jan Tinetti officially opened Fire and Emergency’s new service centre in Tauranga.
08/05/2023
| Operational
| National
Fire and Emergency is celebrating significant work being completed in its post-earthquake reconstruction programme in Christchurch, officially opening both the flagship Christchurch City Fire Station and the Sumner Fire Station.
04/05/2023
| Operational
| National
As part of the review process into our response to the Auckland Floods and Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle we have created a Lessons Capture Form and we’d like to hear from you.
02/05/2023
| Operational
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1),
Te Ihu (previously Region 4),
National
Planning is underway for a coordinated response to severe weather expected across much of the country later this week.
17/04/2023
| Operational,
Emergency management
| National
Our next My Health Hub webinar is ‘National Ambulance Air Desk and ANTS criteria’ and will be held tomorrow night (18 April) between 7 and 8pm hosted by Kathryn Steel, Clinical Manager of our National Air desk and Aaron Waterreus, Specialist Response Manager.
17/04/2023
| Operational,
People projects
| National
We are carrying out a routine audit of our internal communications channels.
14/04/2023
| Operational,
Emergency management
| National
During the Auckland floods earlier this year, some of our brigades and members of our Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team were called to Orua Bay in Manukau Heads to rescue two people trapped within a collapsed building.