Our 3-Step Escape Plan

  • First Escape Route
  • Second Escape Route
  • Meeting Place
Notes

Use this space to note any additional information about your escape plan, i.e. who will assist

Your checklist

  • Get low

    Smoke is poisonous and more deadly than flames.

    If you breathe smoke for more than a few breaths it can kill you.

  • Be fast

    A house fire can kill you in less than three minutes.

    Don't spend time trying to save possessions.

  • Close doors

    A closed door buys you time.

    It slows down the spread of fire, giving you more time to get to safety.

  • Get out - stay out!

    People have died by going back into a fire.

    Don't leave the meeting place to go back inside for any reason.

Call emergency services as soon as you are out and safe. Ask for FIRE.

Clearly state your address and let the operator know it anyone is still inside or has not made it to the safe meeting place.

Emergency call 111 Emergency text 111
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News and media

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Canterbury Local Advisory Committee appointed icon

Canterbury Local Advisory Committee appointed

17 July 2025 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has confirmed the eight inaugural members of the new Canterbury Local Advisory Committee (LAC).

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Wellington Local Advisory Committee appointed

17 July 2025 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has confirmed the seven inaugural members of Wellington’s new Local Advisory Committee (LAC).

43-person taskforce set to bolster Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s Canadian assistance icon

43-person taskforce set to bolster Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s Canadian assistance

11 July 2025 | Deployments

Fire and Emergency is sending a 43-person taskforce to Canada to add to the assistance it is providing the Manitoba province with its wildfire response.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand specialist teams in Nelson to support community icon

Fire and Emergency New Zealand specialist teams in Nelson to support community

11 July 2025 | Announcements

A specialist water rescue team and a wide area damage assessment team have been deployed to Nelson to support response to expected severe weather

Seven-person specialist team to assist in Canadian wildfires icon

Seven-person specialist team to assist in Canadian wildfires

8 July 2025 | Deployments

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is deploying a seven-person specialist team to Manitoba, Canada to support the province’s wildfire response.

Nelson-Tasman and Marlborough Flooding Update #1 icon

Nelson-Tasman and Marlborough Flooding Update #1

27 June 2025 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency is supporting Civil Defence in both Nelson-Tasman and Marlborough in the response to widespread flooding across the top of the South Island.

Third offender convicted and discharged for offences relating to the 2022 Awarua Wetlands wildfire during a total fire ban icon

Third offender convicted and discharged for offences relating to the 2022 Awarua Wetlands wildfire during a total fire ban

27 June 2025 | Announcements

A third offender has been convicted and discharged for offences relating to the 2022 Awarua Wetlands wildfire

22 new career firefighters join the Fire and Emergency New Zealand team icon

22 new career firefighters join the Fire and Emergency New Zealand team

19 June 2025 | Announcements

Twenty-two firefighters swapped their green trainee helmets for their yellow operational helmets at their graduation yesterday in Rotorua.