National Headquarters 
Fire and Emergency New Zealand 
National Headquarters 
Spark Central, Level 7 
42-52 Willis Street 
Wellington Central 
Wellington 6011 
  
Phone +64 4 496 3600 
 
 
 
16 December 2024 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
             Ref: 16191 
 
 
Alan Thompson 
[FYI request #29048 email]  
 
 
Tēnā koe Alan 
 
Thank you for your request of 4 November 2024 to Fire and Emergency New Zealand. You asked 
for information relating to an incident on 21 October 2024 at 1:15pm in North Waikato, under the 
Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). Please find our response below. 
 
1.  A copy of the ICAD report for this incident. 
 
Please find attached a copy of the ICAD Report. Some information has been withheld under the 
following sections of the OIA: 
 
•  9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of natural persons; and 
 
•  9(2)(ba)(i), to protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which 
any person has been or could be compelled to provide under the authority of any 
enactment, where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the 
supply of similar information, or information from the same source, and it is in the public 
interest that such information should continue to be supplied. 
 
We have also redacted the names of personnel involved with this incident and these have been 
labelled as out of scope in the attached PDF. 
 
Please note the ICAD Report provided to you is generated by Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s 
electronic station management system. In ICAD Reports, ‘Notifications’ and ‘Message Log’ fields 
are reported in real time as fire crews and our communication centres communicate with each 
other during the incident. They are not the official final records of incidents but word for word 
transcripts of ‘live’ situations as they occur. They may contain spelling errors or commonly used 
abbreviations.  
 
2.  Copies of the Incident Actions Plans for the first 5 days/nights of the response to this 
incident. 
 
 

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Please find attached, as an Appendix to this response, the Incident Action Plans (IAPs) for the first 
five days of our response to this incident. Some information has been withheld under section 
9(2)(a) of the OIA, to protect the privacy of natural persons. 
 
In making the above decisions, we have considered the public interest considerations in section 
9(1) of the OIA. 
 
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. 
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or 
freephone 0800 802 602. 
 
We trust that the information being provided is of assistance. If you require further information, 
please email [FENZ request email].  
 
Nāku noa, nā 
 
 
 
 
Aidan Saunders 
Manager, Information Requests 
 
 

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