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…
24/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Ngā Tai ki te Puku (previously Region 2)
All personnel are to be made aware of this notice.
21/07/2017
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Operational Instruction
| National
Action Read and action
SummaryThis notice outlines the use of powers to restrict or prohibit entry to any land or building that is the site of an emergency. Specialist Fire Investigators and Rural Level 2 and Level 3 Fire Investigators have the powers of an inspector.
20/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| National
Action Read
SummaryAll operational personnel must read the two guidelines for clarification on how we respond to hazardous substance emergencies after 1 July 2017.
18/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata
Expressions of interest are invited from Existing Career Staff for a secondment position within the Waitemata Fire Area for the following position.
11/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 2 Whangarei-Kaipara
End of an era and on to new beginnings. The New Zealand Fire Service Act 1975 and the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977 are now etched in the history books with the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 now in force.
10/07/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| Te Hiku (previously Region 1)
| Area 3 Waitemata
Calling for a Fire Investigator to assist in determining an Area of Origin and probable cause within private homes or Marae.