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.

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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.