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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Holidaymakers urged to take care with fires in Coromandel this summer

23 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates

Fire and Emergency New Zealand urges caution around any activity involving flames, heat or fire on the Coromandel Peninsula over the summer months.

Ignite Magazine: Issue 32

23 Hakihea 2024 | Ignite Magazine

In this edition we look at an exercise at the Central Interceptor tunnel, planting of native plants to reduce the spread of wildfire, and an internal award won.

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

20 Hakihea 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

All Canterbury under total fire ban from midday Monday

20 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has advised all of Canterbury will be in a prohibited fire season from 12pm Monday 23 December, until further notice.

Outdoor fires prohibited in south Marlborough from Monday

20 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates

Fire and Emergency New Zealand will impose a prohibited fire season on the Marlborough South area from 8am on Monday 23 December, until further notice.

Rain prompts Gisborne to move back to a restricted fire season

20 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates

Gisborne moves from prohibited fire season to restricted fire season as of 4pm Friday 20 December 2024

Check your old burn piles are out before the holidays

20 Hakihea 2024 | Announcements

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

Outdoor fires restricted in parts of Otago, fireworks ban for Lakes

19 Hakihea 2024 | Fire Season Updates

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has banned fireworks in the Queenstown Lakes area, and restricted open-air fires in the Strath Taieri, Coastal Waitaki and Lakes.