Fire Crisis Special Reports
Fire Crisis Investigations
On the frontline with our firefighters
Media coverage leading up to the historic action of 19 August 2022
18 August 2022
SPECIAL – Sam White – Secretary Of The Nelson Fire Brigade
17 August 2022
Inside the day-to-day workings of New Zealand’s busiest firehouse
TV1 Fire Crisis Breakfast Special
Professional firefighters across New Zealand strike on Friday
16 August 2022
Firefighters around the country prepare to walk off the job
15 August 2022
Fire and Emergency ‘playing the odds’ with public safety, union says
11 August 2022
Jan Logie’s General Debate speech on firefighters
10 August 2022
Firefighters logging hundreds of hours of overtime
9 August 2022
8 August 2022
Firefighters’ smouldering anger erupts
The Front Page: ‘It’s hard to breathe’ – As Europe burns, is NZ ready for wildfire season?
5 August 2022
Professional Firefighter Union: FENZ will have contingency plans during strike
Firefighters set for hour-long strike to protest understaffing and low wages
24 July 2022
Todd Muller: There needs to be a reset on how we value critical workers
21 July 2022
Wellington – LIVE
Complaints to Fire and Emergency NZ triple in recent years
4 July 2022
3 July 2022
Firefighter dispute continues to burn
2 July 2022
Staff shortages caused seven-minute delay on Porirua house fire response - union [The Dominion Post]
‘We’re on the brink’: Burnt out firefighters say understaffing will soon cost lives
30 June 2022
Fire crews quick to the rescue in Caversham
‘Minutes literally mattered’: Man saved from Dunedin house fire
29 June 2022
Firefighters working 80 hour weeks – “Some are having to work more hours than that”
28 June 2022
Parliament TV Oral Questions
Industrial building destroyed by fire in Auckland’s Penrose
26 June 2022
Francesca Rudkin: Under-paid, under-valued, under-staffed
22 June 2022
Firefighters call for change in face of traumatic call outs
21 June 2022
What happens if your house goes up in flames and your neighbourhood fire station is closed for business?
20 June 2022
Firefighter’s fight for fair working conditions
18 June 2022
‘It all adds up over time’: Firefighters on dealing with death
16 June 2022
Firefighters meet with bosses today following partial strike action
15 June 2022
Firefighters take industrial action
14 June 2022
13 June 2022
Firefighters ‘not respected’ and ‘barely scraping over the adult minimum wage’
Wattie Watson: Firefighters’ Union National Secretary says volunteers and their employers are being too heavily relied on
12 June 2022
2 June 2022
Union accuses FENZ of moving too slow on hose trouble
30 May 2022
27 May 2022
Union: low wage, short staffing behind firefighters strike
26 May 2022