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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Preventing unwanted alarms

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Every year we attend over 20,000 false-alarm calls. Here's how your business can reduce the number of false alarms in your buildings.

Canterbury Fires Update #4

News and media|19 January 2024

Please see below updates on the fires in Canterbury today.

Cyclone Gabrielle Update #1

News and media|12 February 2023

Fire crews are responding to a slow but steady stream of 111 calls for assistance as winds are strengthening from Northland to the Coromandel and beyond.

Moutere Highway Fire Update 4 - 8:43 hours 28/02/19

News and media|28 February 2019

Fire and Emergency crews have contained the fire near Moutere Hill in Tasman district overnight to the existing blackout perimeter.

Hawke’s Bay residents urged to take care in working around silt

News and media|22 February 2023

Residents of flood-impacted areas are being urged to not dig trenches through silt deposits.

Eke Taumata six-month report June 2023
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Six-month progress report on delivering the recommendations of the review into Fire and Emergency's culture and complaints handling practices.

Lead Teams Programme Evaluation Supporting the Leadership Development Framework - report #198 [2023]
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Evaluation commissioned to understand how the ‘lead team’ pilot programme was implemented, it’s effectiveness supporting leadership development...

Evaluation of grass curing assessment methods for application in New Zealand Report #165 [2018]
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Fire and Emergency is seeking a viable operational method to monitor and assess grass curing to combat greater fire risk areas.