12/09/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
ActionCommunicate this notice to all personnel. SituationFire and Emergency has trailers with two different size of couplings – 1 7/8” and 50mm. It is essential that the tow ball on the towing vehicle is the same size as the coupling on each trailer being towed.
10/09/2019
| Audience: All firefighters
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
This is a call for expressions of interest from all Te Hiku personnel who would like to be considered to become an FAIP practitioner within the Region.
06/09/2019
| Audience: All firefighters
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata,
Area 4 Auckland City,
Area 5 Counties-Manukau
Transdev Auckland operations group have advised Fire and Emergency that they are about to roll out a modification to the external emergency door release (Egress) handle on their fleet of electric trains.
03/09/2019
| Audience: All firefighters
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 4 Auckland City
It is disappointing to see that the City hose repair department are increasingly receiving hose that is not clean enough to enable them to repair, or even touch in some cases for fear of personal contamination.
30/08/2019
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
Action
Note that the NZTA Variation to driving hours has been renewed for another year. All ComCens and fire stations where career firefighters are based must print out a copy of the variation and produce it on demand if requested by an inspector.
26/08/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata
A Volunteer Firefighter from the Te Atatu Fire Station was unknowingly exposed to the measles virus at the beginning of August. Fortunately their interaction with other members of Fire and Emergency was limited for a period of ten days or more from the original exposure.
21/08/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 5 Counties-Manukau
UFBA Honours Presentations 2019
20/08/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
Instructions for what to do during an outage to the paging system next week.
19/08/2019
| Audience: Career firefighters only
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
The below represents a schedule for recertification of career level 2-line rescue staff, there are 2 sessions per day, the AM session commencing at 08:30hrs and the afternoon commencing at 1300 hrs. They will be conducted at the Mt Wellington training centre, lunch is not provided.
16/08/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
See August 2019 Newsletter attached.