003/2019: Updated - Danger of exploding heavy vehicle wheels
Safety notice on how tyres on trucks, cranes and other heavy vehicles may catch fire under a range of circumstances, with the obvious potential for them to then explode.
Safety notice on how tyres on trucks, cranes and other heavy vehicles may catch fire under a range of circumstances, with the obvious potential for them to then explode.
Fire and Emergency personnel are invited to submit their application to join the New Zealand Fly-In Team (NZ-FIT) for Civil Defence declarations.
This National Notice is an update on the National Safety Notice 042/2018.
This notice has been amended on 29 January 2019. This is the updated version. If you have printed out the earlier notice, please replace with this copy.All operational personnel are advised to follow this information for fitting and wearing a P2 respiratory mask if responding to vegetation fires, if not already wearing an APR. This notice is in place until further notice.
All brigades must immediately check the seatbelts of all vehicles on station and follow the actions in this notice if required.
Important information for Area Managers, Principal Rural Fire Officers and frontline personnel about the new emergency medical response kit roll out and online training resources to complete.
This instruction is a notice for all Operational personnel, especially Region Leadership Teams and Incident Management Teams, to ensure they are familiar with the process to request New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) assistance.
This National Notice contains information for rostered Firefighters and Communications Centre employees.
All personnel must follow the interim command and control policy and not use Section 66 for operational response.
With the firework sales period and Guy Fawkes celebrations nearly upon us again, the incidence of firework related fires is expected to increase. Read this notice and follow the operational instructions that apply from 1 November 2018.