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

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NZFS Home Fire Safety Check Evaluation 2014 Phase 1 - Report #147 (2014)
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This evaluation examined the effectiveness and impact of the Home Fire Safety
Check programme to reduce fire risk.

Development of a micro-simulation statistical model for household fire risk identification - report #130 (2013)
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This research explores and tests the potential for micro-simulation as a method for improving household fire risk spatial modelling & forecasting.

Applying the conversion model to changing at risk groups attitudes to fire safety - report #110 (2010)
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This research aimed to help identify messages that can be communicated to at risk groups to better encourage fire safe attitudes and behaviours.

Preliminary analysis of soil moisture data collected by the Fire Weather System weather station network – report #204 [2023]
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Report on measuring soil moisture and how it can help determine fire danger, based on data from FENZ’s network of fire weather stations

Increasing fire danger sparks change in Canterbury fire season

News and media|9 January 2024

Sunday’s fires along the Darfield railway line provided a timely reminder to everyone in Canterbury that it just takes a spark to start a wildfire, particularly as the fire danger increases.

Emergency Services Information Summary for Service Stations

Found in: Hazardous substances

To ensure we can respond to incidents involving hazardous substances promptly and safely, Fire and Emergency needs to have accurate information about those substances and where they are located.

Live on TV house burn reaches 700,000 to show the speed and danger of fire

News and media|16 August 2023

Last night, Tuesday 15 August, Fire and Emergency partnered with TVNZ’s Seven Sharp to show viewers the devastating speed of fire, live on television.

Smoke alarms are life savers

News and media|21 September 2020

Smoke alarms saved lives this weekend - alerting residents to a kitchen fire in the Hawke’s Bay.