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Fireworks banned on Port Hills, Banks Peninsula and Kaitorete Spit this summer
18 December 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has imposed a temporary ban on all fireworks and sky lantern activity on the Port Hills, Banks Peninsula, and Kaitorete Spit
Fire and Emergency New Zealand sends a team to assist with Vanuatu earthquake
18 December 2024 | Deployments
Fire and Emergency New Zealand is sending 34 personnel, alongside one MFAT liaison, to Vanuatu to help with the devastation caused by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake
All Wairarapa under total fire ban from today
18 December 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Prohibited fire season for the entire Wairarapa
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).
Fireworks banned in Mackenzie Basin and Ashburton Lakes this summer
16 December 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has imposed a temporary ban on all fireworks activity in the Mackenzie Basin and the Ashburton Lakes from Sunday 15 December.
Fireworks and open-air fires banned in parts of Otago
16 December 2024 | Fire Season Updates
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has prohibited outdoor fires and fireworks activity in Central Otago, Naseby, and upper Waitaki from today until further notice.
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.
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.