Our 3-Step Escape Plan

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

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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.

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Ōtāhuhu Fire Update #3

Firefighters are continuing to work on a fire in an industrial area in Ōtāhuhu and Fire and Emergency is still advising people in the area of McGee St to stay inside with doors and windows shut to avoid being exposed to smoke.

The building where the fire was first reported was already well ablaze when the first crews arrived. It then spread to an adjoining premises.

Incident Controller James Hall says that firefighters have contained the fire in the second building and are now working to fully extinguish it, and are continuing to mop up remaining hotspots in the original building.

Very little smoke is now being generated by the fire, but James Hay says that people should still keep their doors and windows closed and stay away from the area so they don't get in the way of emergency services.

A fire investigator is at the scene.