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

Search results for Incident reports

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Mt Creighton Fire - Update 4

News and media|9 October 2022

Ground and aerial firefighting is continuing in order to contain the vegetation fire on the slopes of Mt Creighton above the Glenorchy Road near Queenstown.

Black Jack Fire Update #11

News and media|15 January 2025

Firefighters will continue their efforts to extinguish areas of deepseated burning on the Black Jack fireground near Kuaotunu on the Coromandel Peninsula today.

Balmoral Fire Update #4

News and media|8 September 2024

Fire and Emergency New Zealand hopes to hand back the site of a large vegetation fire at Tokarahi, Waitaki to the landowner tomorrow.

Code of Practice for Fire Fighting Water Supplies and Indicative Cost Benefit Analysis - Report #56 (2004)
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Independent Complaint and Review Authority (ICRA) Annual Report June 2025
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Annual report on the delivery of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Dispute Resolution Scheme (the Scheme) under subpart 5 of Part 4 of the Act 2017.

Changing public behaviour: enhanced and improved communication of fire danger Report #156 (2017)
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This research explored the role of fire danger rating systems in communicating fire risk and how they relate to behaviour change.

Fire and Emergency received calls for 22 incidents during today’s strike

News and media|9 January 2026

Fire and Emergency New Zealand received calls for 22 incidents between 12pm and 1pm today, Friday 9 January, the eighth time the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) has taken strike action.

Suspicious fire at Taylors Mistake

News and media|15 December 2024

A fire at Taylor's Mistake on the edge of the Port Hills overnight is being treated as suspicious.