21/08/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata,
Area 4 Auckland City
A recent article in the Herald (see article below or on NZ Herald site(external link)) has highlighted a spate of incidents in Auckland where a man has offered to install smoke alarms and once inside has stolen items from the homeowners.
10/08/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 4 Auckland City
Fire and Emergency NZ ID Cards
08/08/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Ngā Tai ki te Puku (previously Region 2)
Fire Region Manager, Ron Devlin will be on Annual Leave from 9th of August until 11th of September 2017. Aaron Waterreus will be acting Fire Region Manager in Ron’s absence and Kevin Cowper will be acting Area Manager in Area 7 – Eastern Waikato.
End of notice
07/08/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 2 Whangarei-Kaipara,
Area 1 Muri Whenua
Please see the below temporary Area Executive changes for Area 1 and 2, effective from today. Muri Whenua Area Commander, Wipari Henwood has been deployed to Canada as part of the New Zealand contingent to help with the bush fires in that part of the world.
04/08/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
All meetings will commence at 1000hrs at the cluster station.
01/08/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
Applications are invited from existing North-West Auckland Fire District Firefighters for the following vacancy.
01/08/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 4 Auckland City
Area 4 currently has two vacancies loaded on the Portal, see below.
Fire Risk Management Officer
Due to the upcoming retirement of Russell Dickson, applications are sought for the role of Fire Risk Management Officer in Area 4.
31/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 5 Counties-Manukau
Expressions of interest are invited from Existing Career Staff for a secondment position within the Counties Manukau Fire Area for the following position.
28/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 2 Whangarei-Kaipara
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.
28/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata
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…