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Air Desk Activity

Alan Thompson made this Official Information request to Fire and Emergency New Zealand

The request was successful.

From: Alan Thompson

Dear Fire and Emergency New Zealand,

FENZ activated an Air Desk service on 15 March 20121. All requests for an aircraft to support the response to an incident from FENZ Incident Controllers were required to be made to the Air Desk from this date.

Under the provisions of the Official Information Act I request the following information on the Air Desk for the period 15th February to 15th May 2021:

1. By FENZ Region/Area, the number of incidents for which the request for an aircraft was made via the Air Desk service?

2. The type or classification of the incident as assigned by FENZ (eg Vegetation Fire, Structural Fire, etc) ?

3 The number and type of aircraft the Air Desk responded to the incident; and

4. The total aircraft hours billed to FENZ for each of these incidents?

Yours faithfully,

Alan Thompson

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From: Official Information Requests
Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Dear Alan 
 
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your information request, dated
23 May 2021.   

In accordance with section 15 of the Official Information Act 1982 we will
try to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we
are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an
extension of that timeframe.

In order to gather information relevant to your request, we may make
details of your request known to Fire and Emergency personnel who are
likely to be able to assist with the identification and collation of that
information.  This will not include your identity as the requestor, unless
it is reasonably necessary to share that in order to gather information
relevant to your request.  Please let us know immediately if you have any
concerns about the sharing of details of your request, including your
identity, within Fire and Emergency.  We will contact you to discuss your
concerns and how they will affect our approach to processing your request.

We will also contact you if:

·         we require further information to clarify, or to enable us to
process, your request;

·         we need to tell a third party who you are, in order to consult
on your request or information that relates to it.

 

 

Kind regards

Official Information Team

 

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From: Alan Thompson

Dear FENZ

My apologies, the period I request the information for should be 15 March - 15 May 2021 (not 15 Feb - 15 March).

Yours sincerely,

Alan Thompson

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From: Official Information Requests
Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Dear Alan
Many thanks, I will add your email to the request folder.
Kind regards
Louise

Louise Robinson
Ministerial Services Coordinator, Ministerial & Executive Services, Office of the Chief Executive

P: 04 496 3694  

[email address]
 www.fireandemergency.nz

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From: Robinson, Louise
Fire and Emergency New Zealand

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Dear Alan

Please find attached a response from Amelia Dalley, Manager, Official
Information Act, Office of the Chief Executive, extending the deadline of
your information request.

Kind regards

Louise

 

Louise Robinson

Ministerial Services Coordinator, Ministerial & Executive Services, Office
of the Chief Executive

P: 04 496 3694  

 

 

 

 

 

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From: Alan Thompson

Dear FENZ,

It is indeed very surprising to learn that you can not access in 20 working days such basic information on the Air Desk given it is managing the ordering of many millions of Dollars worth of aerial response costs. Notwithstanding the need to monitor and learn from operational performance, further develop the system and plan for future requirments.

I will await your further advice.

Yours sincerely,

Alan Thompson

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From: Fett, Ethan
Fire and Emergency New Zealand

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Dear Alan,

 

Please see attached, a response from Raewyn Bleakley, Deputy Chief
Executive, Office of the Chief Executive to your request for information.
 

 

Kind regards,

 

Ethan Fett

Advisor, Ministerial and Executive Services
Office of the Chief Executive

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From: Robinson, Louise
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Dear Alan

We responded to your information request on 19 July. In that response we
stated that we were still compiling the hours billed for 23 incidents and
that we would release the information, so far as it is held by Fire and
Emergency, once it has been compiled. We have now compiled and attach the
final data.

Kind regards

Louise

 

 

Louise Robinson

Ministerial Services Coordinator, Ministerial & Executive Services, Office
of the Chief Executive

P: 04 496 3694  

 

 

 

 

 

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