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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Tiwai Peninsula vegetation fire update icon

Tiwai Peninsula vegetation fire update

30 January 2025 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews have been working hard to contain a large vegetation fire in mixed scrub and wetland on Tiwai Peninsula in Invercargill.

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Mangawhai Tornado Update #2

26 January 2025 | Announcements

Firefighters are continuing to check homes and properties in the area where a tornado affected an area of Mangawhai this morning.

Offenders sentenced for lighting the 2022 Awarua Wetlands wildfire during a total fire ban icon

Offenders sentenced for lighting the 2022 Awarua Wetlands wildfire during a total fire ban

23 January 2025 | Announcements

Two people have been sentenced in the Invercargill District Court for offences relating to a fire in the Awarua Wetlands in 2022.

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Mangere Mountain fire: Update 2

19 January 2025 | Announcements

The fire at Mangere Mountain is now contained. Crews remain onsite dampening down hotspots and will continue working this morning.

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Vegetation fire burning on Mangere Mountain

18 January 2025 | Announcements

At 9:25 pm Fire and Emergency received multiple calls about a vegetation fire burning on Mangere Mountain near Domain Road.

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Fire risk increasing in dry Manawatū-Whanganui weather

17 January 2025 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is calling for people in the Manawatū-Whanganui area to take extra care not to spark fires this weekend.

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Fire danger increasing across Taranaki

16 January 2025 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is sounding a fire warning for Taranaki because of warm, windy conditions heading into the weekend.

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Black Jack Fire Update #11

15 January 2025 | Announcements

Thermal imaging identified a further 14 hotspots of deepseated burning on the Black Jack fireground overnight and firefighters will work on these today.