29/03/2018
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
The project to remove the unapproved Class B foams has reached the stage of auditing urban appliances and stations to confirm that all ‘non-approved’ foams have been removed from service, labelled accordingly and removed to temporary storage.
16/03/2018
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
ActionEnsure you only use approved Class B foam at incidents, and don’t use any Class B for training purposes. SummaryRecent media has extensively covered Class B foams containing PFOS and PFOA in NZ, and associated ground contamination.
14/03/2018
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
This instruction is a notice for all Operational personnel to complete the mandatory Command and Control training.
12/03/2018
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
This notice details guidance for management of obese patients and requests from ambulance services for assistance to lift obese patients.
20/02/2018
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
This notice details the requirements that are to be met in order to undertake medical response as a frontline unit of Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
13/02/2018
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
BA cylinders currently in test shall be tested in accordance with their current test schedule – i.e three yearly – until they are next tested. From the date of their next test they then move to a five yearly schedule.This notice is an update to National Notice 027/2017 issued on 12th December 2017.
15/12/2017
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
Our expectations for this fire season are to act on eight important recommendations out of the report from the Port Hills review. We will use these actions to improve how we plan, communicate and work together, and keep ourselves and the public safe.
12/12/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
As of the date of this notice, the hydrostatic testing of BA cylinders shall be carried out five yearly.This applies to all BA cylinders in Fire and Emergency New Zealand use.The process of hydrostatically testing the BA cylinders does not change.
07/12/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
This notice is issued further to Notice 010/2017 issued on 7/06/2017 and provides further information about the operational use of Class B firefighting foams
16/11/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
An increased interoperability risk exists between urban and rural fire response crews until the National IGC portable radio replacement roll out programme has been completed across both urban and rural.