09/04/2020
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| Te Ūpoko (previously Region 3)
| Area 13 Whanganui
All stations should by now have in place their safety plans to minimise the spread of COVID-19. To ensure that the safety of personnel is maintained during cover moves, and that isolation is not compromised, the following instructions are to be adopted immediately.
03/04/2020
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| Te Ūpoko (previously Region 3)
| Area 13 Whanganui
Information to support our response to the COVID-19 virus is being reviewed and promulgated on a daily basis. This Area notice updates instructions to all personnel based on existing, revised and new information.
01/05/2019
| Audience: Career firefighters only
| Status: For Information
| Te Ūpoko (previously Region 3)
| Area 13 Whanganui
The Collective Employment Agreement between Fire and Emergency and the NZ Professional Firefighters Union, in section 2.6.10.1, refers to callouts.
11/03/2019
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Operational Instruction
| Te Ūpoko (previously Region 3)
| Area 13 Whanganui
There have been a number of incidents already this year where Fire & Emergency personnel in our Area have reported suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation where Breathing Apparatus (BA) was not being used.