18/04/2019
| Audience: All firefighters
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata
In May we will hold the next round of career Officer meetings. These will be held in the Kaipatiki room at the Takapuna Fire Sation on the following dates:
Red
Brown
Green
Blue
15 May 2019
17 May 2019
21 May 2019
27 May 2019
Time: 10:00 - 12:00.
11/04/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
Auckland Council Area (excluding Hauraki Gulf Islands) is going to an Open Fire Season from Monday 15 April 2019 at 08:00am. During an Open Fire Season, fire permits are not required for complying fires(external link), lit in the open air on private land.
08/04/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| National
Read the Emergency Mobile Alerting (EMA) policy, procedure and guidelines so you are familiar with the process for requesting, authorising or transmitting an alert.
04/04/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
BACKGROUND
For some time, there has been confusion between Mangere Airport 361 (MANG361) and Mangere 351 (MANG351) as both often respond to the same incident in and around Auckland International Airport Limited (AIAL).
03/04/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata
With the new medical kits being delivered it is an important reminder regarding First Aid Supplies. Some Appliances will be using the new Medical Oxygen INHALO. St Johns are still using the old cylinders, therefore you will need to ensure you retain your cylinders when St Johns transport patients.
28/03/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
Fire and Emergency New Zealand funds annual influenza vaccinations for all paid staff. Nurses contracted to Medpro Healthcare will provide this service as in previous years. Crews are invited to attend cluster stations on the dates and times below.
26/03/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
As you’re aware, we’ve been working towards implementing Safe@Work, our new Safety Health and Wellbeing recording and reporting tool. From April 2nd our region will no longer use AERIK and all real events will need to be recorded using the Safe@Work tool.
25/03/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 4 Auckland City
Schedule for 1st round of drill audits. The Audit will be carried out at the Regional Training Centre by Area 4 management. Audit will be single pump, scenario based drills looking at OIC duties, BA skills, hose drills, pump operation, ECO duties and general firefighting skills.