The brigade, which responds to an average of 210 callouts per year, has turned off the siren as its primary alert system, Fire and Emergency New Zealand said in a statement on Tuesday. Instead ...

On Saturday 29 March, over 110 firefighters from around the South Island will compete as individuals and in teams against ...

Northland’s six-monthly tsunami siren test will take place at the end of daylight saving on Sunday, 6 April. This year marks the first test of the newly installed upgraded sirens. The new sirens ...

A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesperson said they responded ... “We have heard five sirens so far.” One local said the fire smellt like chemicals when it first broke out.