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 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30 January 2026 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
             Ref: 20539 
 
 
Sam Alsop 
[FYI request #33506 email]  
 
 
Tēnā koe Sam 
 
Thank you for your request of 14 January 2026 to Fire and Emergency New Zealand requesting the 
following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA): 
 
•  Please may I request the incident report, in FULL detail for: 
 
F4378404 
14/01/2026 kaikorai dunedin. 
 
Provide all details currently available in the report. 
 
Please find attached a copy of the SMS Incident Report (SMS Report). 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.  
  
 
 
 

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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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