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Chair: Sean McBride (JNL)
Administers the Forest Fire Prevention Programme, identifies forest fire training needs, initiates fire prevention and control research, and manages related expenditure.
Issues: Forest fire prevention, rural fire services, training, improved emergency communications, and fire prevention and control research.
- See our Fire Strategy 2025-2030
- 2026 FGLT Work Programme (page 7)
- The Forest Owners Association (FOA) /Farm Forestry Association (FFA) Fire Committee established a 2022 project – Quantifying Forest Industry Investment in Fire Risk Management, referred to as the Fire Survey – to gain an understanding of the current annual costs to forest owners for plantation forest fire protection. Report attached.
Fire Committee updates:
Forestry Fire Resources
2026 Committee Meeting Dates:
- 4 March
- 13 May
- 13 August
- 22 October
FENZ - National Coordination Centre fire update – 23 October 2025
“Fire and Emergency currently has crews tackling fires at incidents across Canterbury and Hawkes Bay that have been burning since Tuesday 21 October.
As at 0930 on 23 October Fire and Emergency are seeing an increase in non-fire weather-related incidents occurring across the Canterbury and Wellington.”
FENZ National Coordination Centre fire update – 23 October 2025
Report No 2 - FENZ National Coordination Centre fire update – 23 October 2025