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This section contains information about Fire and Emergency New Zealand, including information about our role, our history and governance structure. It also contains helpful guidelines around paying the fire levy. 

Incidents from the previous month

8,117 INCIDENTS ATTENDED
14 EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
417 STRUCTURE FIRES
967 MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
760 MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES
817 VEGETATION FIRES
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76 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

What we do

Our story

Our structure

  • Our structure
  • Local Advisory Committees

Our commitment to working with Māori as tangata whenua

A respectful and inclusive Fire and Emergency

  • Independent Review
  • Positive Workplace Culture Programme
  • Reporting sexual harassment
  • Support for our people

Fire levy information

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is mainly funded by a levy on contracts of insurance where property is insured against the risk of fire. For more information, please visit the pages below.

  • The Fire and Emergency levy
  • Levy payments and forms
  • Statutory declaration requests
  • Fire and Emergency levy rate
  • COVID-19 levy relief
  • What's new

Compliance and enforcement

General contractual provisions

Key documents

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