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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Pilot Study to Identify Strategies to Assess Vegetation Fire Hazards - Report #10 (2001)
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Research and reports

In this section:

  • Browse research reports
  • Heads up
  • Fire weather station climatology data by Fire District
  • Product Recall documents
  • Fire Research and Investigation Unit
  • Operational reviews and reports
  • New Zealand Wildfire Summary
  • Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
  • Positive Workplace Culture Review and Action Plan
  • Te Hiku intensification research

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.

Our communities and our workforce are changing

News and media|9 November 2023

By 2038, more than 50 percent of New Zealanders will be from non-European backgrounds and our communities will speak more than 200 languages.

Helicopters working to contain fire at Riwaka near Motueka

News and media|24 January 2023

Three helicopters and ground crews are working to contain a fire in a forestry block in the Riwaka Valley near Motueka.

Te Hiku intensification research report - report #200 [2023]
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Te Hiku intensification research report without appendices. Visit www.fireandemergency.nz/research-and-reports/te-hiku-intensification-research/

Parental leave policies and procedures
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