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
11 December 2025
Ref: 20001
Matthew Maxwell
[FYI request #32877 email]
Tēnā koe Matthew
Thank you for your request of 16 November 2025 to Fire and Emergency New Zealand requesting
the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA):
•
I would like to request any information relating to the number of call outs FENZ received in
the past ten years and the response times from Te Kuiti or Otorohonga to Waitomo Village
or surrounding area.
Please find attached, as an
Appendix to this response, a table which outlines the following:
• Call out statistics for Te Kuiti Volunteer Fire Brigade and Otorohanga Volunteer Fire
Brigade, to Waitomo Village between 1 January 2015 and 9 December 2025 (see pages 1-
3). Please note, the ‘responded’ column represents the number of appliances which were
dispatched for the incident and the ‘attended’ column represents the number of
appliances that arrived at the incident.
• Response times for attending appliances from Te Kuiti Volunteer Fire Brigade and
Otorohanga Volunteer Fire Brigade to Waitomo Village during the same period (see pages
4-10).
We trust that the information being provided is of assistance. If you require further information,
please email [FENZ request email]
Please note that because of the identified public interest in the information that you have
requested, we intend to publish this response (with your personal details removed) on our
website.
Nāku noa, nā
Aidan Saunders
Manager, Information Requests