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The New Zealand Fire Service was predominantly configured as an Urban Fire & Rescue Service. The Fire Service Act placed responsibility on the NZFS for firefighting in gazetted Urban Fire Districts, totalling about 3% of New Zealand's land area but covering 85% of the country's population.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand is New Zealand's main firefighting and emergency services body. Fire and Emergency was formally established on 1 July 2017, after the New Zealand Fire Service , the National Rural Fire Authority , and 38 rural fire districts and territorial authorities amalgamated to form one new organisation.
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The NZPFU is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions as well as the International Association of Fire Fighters. As well as the key role played by the NZPFU in the organisation of a 1995 referendum on firefighter numbers in response to an industrial dispute, [ 1 ] the NZPFU continues to work towards the betterment of working ...
Before the introduction of 111, access to emergency services was complicated. For the quarter of New Zealand’s then 414,000 telephone subscribers still on manual telephone exchange, one would simply pick up the telephone and ask the answering operator for the police, ambulance, or fire service by name.
In 2024, the Government released the findings of an inquiry into the performance of New Zealand's emergency management system. The inquiry focussed on the response to three severe weather events in the North Island in early 2023: Cyclone Hale (8 to 12 January), Auckland Anniversary floods (26 January to 3 February), and Cyclone Gabrielle (12 to ...