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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Aotearoa New Zealand needs more career firefighters

News and media|3 May 2024

Aotearoa New Zealand needs compassionate and energetic team players to become career firefighters with Fire and Emergency New Zealand.

Costs and benefits of regulating fire safety performance of upholstered furniture in New Zealand - Peer review - Report #41
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What motivates people in small rural communities to become volunteer rural fire fighters - Report #138 (2013)
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This research aimed to find out about what motivates people to join and remain a member of
the Volunteer Rural Fire Forces (VRFF) in New Zealand.

Tongariro National Park Fire Update #4

News and media|8 December 2025

Firefighters will remain on the Tongariro National Park fireground overnight to respond to any flare ups, with active firefighting resuming in the morning.

Waipoua River fire update #7

News and media|1 March 2025

The Waipoua River fire is now 91 hectares.

Waikato wetland fire update #10

News and media|24 October 2024

Fire and Emergency crews remain busy at the wetlands fire near Meremere.

Balmoral fire update #5

News and media|9 September 2024

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has handed the site of the large vegetation fire at Tokarahi, Waitaki, back to the landowner.

Waitaki Fires Update #4

News and media|12 March 2024

Today 10 fire crews (35 firefighters), supported by one digger, continue to work on extinguishing a vegetation fire at Nenthorne, near Middlemarch in Waitaki, Otago which started in the early hours of Monday 11 March.