Our 3-Step Escape Plan

  • First Escape Route
  • Second Escape Route
  • Meeting Place
Notes

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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

Open fire season for Tairāwhiti District

Open fire season for Tairāwhiti District

5 March 2022

All of the Tairāwhiti District will move back into an open fire season at 8am on Saturday 5 March.

An open fire season means permits will no longer be required to light open-air fires.

District Manager Peter Clark says the recent wet weather has caused this change.

"As the weather changes with the seasons, so does the risk of a wildfire spreading once ignited, " he says.

"Currently, the risk of uncontrolled fires has decreased and further predictions of wet and cooler weather has contributed to the decision of allowing open-air fires again."

"Even though the risk has minimised, we still encourage anyone lighting an open-air fire to check the conditions before they light. If it’s dry and windy, please don’t light a fire," says Peter Clark.

For more information and fire safety tips go to www.checkitsalright.nz.

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