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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Heads Up 003 - Auckland Multi Storey Building
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This multi story concrete block building was built circa 1960 and consisted of 7 levels

Strike period incident details - NZPFU again declines request to agree community safety process

News and media|16 January 2026

Fire and Emergency New Zealand received calls for 11 incidents between 12pm and 1pm today, Friday 16 January, the nineth time the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) has taken strike action.

Parikino and Waiinu fire updates

News and media|17 December 2025

Parikino fire Fire and Emergency New Zealand says efforts continue today to fully contain the vegetation fire at Lismore Forest near Parikino. Incident Controller Nigel Dravitzki says the fire has not grown in size and remains at approximately 100 hectares.

Smoke alarms are life savers

News and media|21 September 2020

Smoke alarms saved lives this weekend - alerting residents to a kitchen fire in the Hawke’s Bay.

Smoke alarms save lives - stay safe this winter

News and media|6 May 2020

"If it wasn’t for the smoke alarms, we wouldn’t be here," says Merv Clearwater of East Taieri whose house was severely damaged by fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Live on TV house burn reaches 700,000 to show the speed and danger of fire

News and media|16 August 2023

Last night, Tuesday 15 August, Fire and Emergency partnered with TVNZ’s Seven Sharp to show viewers the devastating speed of fire, live on television.

Preliminary analysis of soil moisture data collected by the Fire Weather System weather station network – report #204 [2023]
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Report on measuring soil moisture and how it can help determine fire danger, based on data from FENZ’s network of fire weather stations

Testing the Collective Action Model to Lifestyle Block Owners Fire Reduction Activities – report #192 (2021)
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Prototypes Collective Action Model (based on research into Lifestyle Block Owners attitudes, practices, & constraints) to see how it works in practice