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
21 August 2025
Ref: 18938
Connor
[FYI request #31903 email]
Tēnā koe Connor
Thank you for your request of 5 August 2025 to Fire and Emergency New Zealand requesting the
following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA):
•
I am writing to request the ICAD report for F4265847 (Foxhill).
We note that you have asked for the ICAD report. The information in the ICAD report feeds into a
more comprehensive report (the SMS Incident report). The SMS Incident Report provides similar
details to the ICAD report but also includes a summary of the incident and, in certain cases,
comments from attending officers and the fire investigator. On that basis, we are providing you
with a copy of the SMS Report. However, if you still want the ICAD report please let us know.
Some information has been withheld from the report under section 9(2)(a) of the OIA, to protect
the privacy of natural persons. In making this decision, we have considered the public interest
considerations in section 9(1) of the OIA. 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 SMS Report provided to you is generated by Fire and Emergency’s electronic
station management system. In SMS 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.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is availab
le 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
