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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News and media

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Whangārei vegetation fire update #2 icon

Whangārei vegetation fire update #2

9 January 2025 | Announcements

We currently have five helicopters on site, four with buckets and one acting as observation and they will be operating until sundown.

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Fire and Emergency honours recipients congratulated

31 December 2024 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Board Chair Rebecca Keoghan has congratulated five firefighters from Prebbleton, Papamoa, Ōtāne, Whangārei and Mataura.

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Fire and Emergency New Zealand combines with Australian team to support Vanuatu earthquake response

20 December 2024 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) personnel responding to the 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Vanuatu have joined with their Australia

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Check your old burn piles are out before the holidays

20 December 2024 | Announcements

Firefighters are regularly called out over Christmas/New Year to put out escaped burn piles. Check your old burn piles are out.

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Two new LAC appointments

17 December 2024 | Announcements

Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s Board has appointed the members of two new Local Advisory Committees (LAC).

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All accounted for in Oakleigh house fire

15 December 2024 | Announcements

Firefighters from seven brigades have been working to extinguish a house fire in Oakleigh, south of Whangarei, tonight. All occupants are accounted for.

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Suspicious fire at Taylors Mistake

15 December 2024 | Announcements

A fire at Taylors Mistake on the edge of the Port Hills in Christchurch overnight is being treated as suspicious.

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Burnham Fire Update #5

13 December 2024 | Announcements

Additional firefighters have been brought in to continue the work of extinguishing the Burnham fire near the Selwyn River in Canterbury.