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Rain prompts Gisborne to move back to a restricted fire season
20 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Gisborne moves from prohibited fire season to restricted fire season as of 4pm Friday 20 December 2024
Check your old burn piles are out before the holidays
20 Hakihea 2024 | Announcements
Firefighters are regularly called out over Christmas/New Year to put out escaped burn piles. Check your old burn piles are out.
Outdoor fires prohibited in south Marlborough from Monday
20 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Fire and Emergency New Zealand will impose a prohibited fire season on the Marlborough South area from 8am on Monday 23 December, until further notice.
Outdoor fires restricted in parts of Otago, fireworks ban for Lakes
19 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has banned fireworks in the Queenstown Lakes area, and restricted open-air fires in the Strath Taieri, Coastal Waitaki and Lakes.
Fireworks and sky lanterns banned in dry parts of Hawkes Bay
19 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Fire and Emergency is prohibiting the use of fireworks and sky lanterns in parts of Hawke’s Bay from 8am on Friday 20 December.
Give the gift of fire safety this Christmas
19 Hakihea 2024 | Community Education
If you give the gift of fire safety this Christmas it could be the best gift you ever give - the gift of a life saved.
Fireworks banned on Port Hills, Banks Peninsula and Kaitorete Spit this summer
18 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has imposed a temporary ban on all fireworks and sky lantern activity on the Port Hills, Banks Peninsula, and Kaitorete Spit
Fire and Emergency New Zealand sends a team to assist with Vanuatu earthquake
18 Hakihea 2024 | Deployments
Fire and Emergency New Zealand is sending 34 personnel, alongside one MFAT liaison, to Vanuatu to help with the devastation caused by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake