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Fire Type |
Description |
Conditions you |
Restricted |
Prohibited |
Gas-operated appliances |
Manufactured gas-operated appliances, such as barbeques, outdoor fireplaces and outdoor gas heaters. |
|
Authorised |
Authorised |
Charcoal |
Barbeques or grills that use either charcoal briquettes or natural lump charcoal as their fuel source. |
|
Authorised fire type |
Authorised fire type |
Wood-fire |
Also known as wood ovens, these are ovens that use wood fuel for cooking. |
|
Authorised fire type |
Authorised fire type |
Chiminea |
A freestanding front-loading fireplace or oven with a bulbous body, and usually has a vertical smoke vent or chimney. |
Authorised fire type |
Authorised fire type |
|
Cultural |
Including hāngï, umu, braai and lovo. |
|
Authorised fire type |
Authorised fire type |
Braziers |
A container for hot coals – usually an upright standing or hanging metal bowl or box. |
|
Authorised fire type |
Prohibited fire type* |
Fire pits/bowls |
A pit dug in the ground made from stone, brick or metal or a bowl on an upright stand. |
Authorised fire type |
Prohibited fire type* |
|
Open drum incinerator |
A drum or container with a mesh or solid lid designed to prevent the escape of hot ash or fire, and designed exclusively for incineration. |
|
Authorised fire type |
Prohibited fire type* |
Campfires |
A fire (less than 0.5m diameter x 0.5m height) at a campsite that provides light and warmth, and heat for cooking. |
|
Permit required |
Prohibited fire type* |
Bonfires |
A large, but controlled outdoor fire, used either for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration. |
|
Permit required |
Prohibited fire type* |
Burn piles |
The burning of cut and stacked vegetation, includes horticulture branch/piles, offal pits or land clearing heaps. |
|
Permit required |
Prohibited fire type* |
Crop |
Setting straw stubble or crop residue on fire that remains after wheat and other grains have been harvested. |
|
Permit required |
Prohibited fire type* |
Broadcast |
Applied generally to most or all of an area within well-defined boundaries to remove grass, scrub or forest cutover. |
|
Permit required |
Prohibited fire type* |
Windrows |
The burning of vegetation that is placed in long narrow rows as a result of forest or scrub clearing. |
|
Permit required |
Prohibited fire type* |
Other |
Fires not captured in other fire types, such as biosecurity fires and planned structure fires. |
|
Permit required |
Prohibited fire type* |
*Fire and Emergency will only grant permits while a prohibition is in force if:
- that is necessary to prevent, reduce, or overcome any hazard to life or because of any other serious emergency; or
- weather or other conditions have temporarily reduced the fire hazard so as to make it apparently safe to light a fire.