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Prohibited fire season declared for Thames-Coromandel

Thames-Coromandel is now in a prohibited fire season as of 8am today (Sunday 20 December).

Canterbury moving to restricted season

All of Canterbury is moving to a restricted fire season effective from midnight Wednesday 16 December.

Nelson fire highlights importance of working smoke alarms

Without their neighbours calling 111, 3 Nelson residents may not have been alerted to a fire until it was too late as the house didn't have working smoke alarms.

Restricted fire season begins for Porirua and Kāpiti Coast

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has declared a restricted fire season for the Porirua and Kāpiti Coast areas from 8am today, until further notice.

All Wairarapa under total fire ban from today

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has placed the entire Wairarapa in a prohibited fire season from 8am Wednesday 18 December, until further notice.

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Get Firewise Research

What the research saysHow five and six year olds learn safety behavioursEducationists have established through research that five and six year olds learn and retain safety messages and safe behaviours if: the number of messages and behaviours is kept to as few as possible the message is repeated several times and children say it out loud when the message or behaviour is introduced, the children have many opportunities to process the knowledge or practise the behaviour each time children process the knowledge they involve themselves in the situation and talk, describe, or draw themselves in the situation where possible, children actively do something to practise the behaviour children have opportunities to discuss their knowledge and practise their skills at regular intervals after they have learnt it children relate the learning to themselves and their family and lives.

Prediction of fire weather and fire danger - report #83 (2007)

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