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
Fire & Emergency New Zealand

Karaka gas leak resolved

Karaka gas leak resolved

26 March 2024

Residents in the vicinity of Hingaia Peninsula School in Karaka, Auckland, are once again free to open windows and doors, and go outside as a gas leak in the area has been shut down.

Firefighters finished working at the scene about 11.15pm after Vector's Emergency Response Team shut down the gas main.

Hingaia Road has reopened.

Three fire trucks and two Fire and Emergency support units attended the incident, which occurred after a tunnelling machine stuck the gas main earlier this evening.

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