R1-046/2017: Area 5 Counties-Manukau - Fire Risk Management Officer
Expressions of interest are invited from Existing Career Staff for a secondment position within the Counties Manukau Fire Area for the following position.
Notices
R1-045/2017: Area 2 Whangarei-Kaipara - Update 8-17
Mt Tiger Road IncidentAs you will know, earlier this week one of our own, Firefighter Jeff Pipe from the Onerahi brigade was confronted with a truly frightening and tragic incident that saw two women that he worked alongside lose their lives.
R1-044/2017: Area 3 Waitemata - Working Safely Near Water
As a part of a corrective action from an investigation into a near miss at the Flooding in New Lynn, Staff are reminded of National Notice #013-2016
Key principles are:
Always apply the Safe Person Concept
Carry out a full risk assessment
Maintain situational awareness
Be aware of hazards
Do not enter swift water
If working in…
R2-043/2017: Region 2 Celebrating Success Awards 2017
All personnel are to be made aware of this notice.
017/2017: Power to restrict or prohibit access to the site of an emergency
Action Read and action
SummaryThis notice outlines the use of powers to restrict or prohibit entry to any land or building that is the site of an emergency. Specialist Fire Investigators and Rural Level 2 and Level 3 Fire Investigators have the powers of an inspector.
016/2017: Rendering safe and disposing of hazardous or other substances
Action Read
SummaryAll operational personnel must read the two guidelines for clarification on how we respond to hazardous substance emergencies after 1 July 2017.
R1-042/2017: Area 3 Waitemata - Secondment - Fire Risk Management Officer
Expressions of interest are invited from Existing Career Staff for a secondment position within the Waitemata Fire Area for the following position.
R1-041/2017: Area 2 Whangarei-Kaipara - Area Update 7-17
End of an era and on to new beginnings. The New Zealand Fire Service Act 1975 and the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977 are now etched in the history books with the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 now in force.
R1-040/2017: Area 3 Waitemata - Fire and Emergency New Zealand Investigation
Calling for a Fire Investigator to assist in determining an Area of Origin and probable cause within private homes or Marae.
015/2017: Operational Support authority
Operational Support personnel make an extremely valuable contribution to Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s response to fire and other emergencies.