Tēnā koe Alan Thompson  
 
We write to acknowledge receipt of your information request dated 3 March
2025. Our commitment is to provide a response to your request as soon as
possible, and no later than 20 working days after the day it was received.
If we are unable to meet this timeframe, we will inform you promptly and
provide details regarding any extension required. Should clarification be
necessary for your request, we may reach out to you for additional
information.
             
The information you have requested may contain the names and contact
details of our staff or volunteers. Please let us know whether you require
these names and contact details. We may need to consult our people before
deciding whether we can release this information, and this may take a bit
more time. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you do not
require their names and contact details.

Nāku noa, nā
Information Request Team

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Kia ora Alan,

 

We have made enquiries about what it would take for Fire and Emergency to
fulfil your request, and we are advised that it would be a considerable
undertaking to collate the requested information. The reason is that our
data management system for recording information about aviation providers
does not record data on regions or districts. Instead, it only collates
data on each individual incident.

 

This means there is no straightforward way of pulling the requested
information for wildfires in the Canterbury district. It would require the
relevant team to go through the data line by line and identify whether
each incident occurred within Canterbury district boundaries, and then
collate the specific information from each of the incidents that do. The
timeframe requested means that there would be approximately 1,300
individual incidents to check. Identifying the requested information will
therefore be a significant undertaking for Fire and Emergency, and we
consider that fulfilling it would unreasonably interfere with our
operations.

 

We are therefore reaching out to ask whether you would like to refine or
amend your request. For example:

 

o Instead of receiving this information for all wildfires in a specific
district, would you be interested in receiving information about
specific wildfires?
o Would you be interested in receiving summary information about
aircraft hours, such as information about the total hours flown
nationally each financial year?

 

Amending in one of these ways would make it much more likely that we could
respond to your request. Or, if you have any other suggestions, we are
happy to make further enquiries into them.

 

We look forward to hearing from you, and if you need further clarification
about this email, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Information Requests Team

 

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     PO Box 2133, Wellington 6011

 

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