Dear Fire and Emergency New Zealand,

In response to an earlier OIA (Your Ref 20484) you provided a breakdown of the costs of the 8 Nov 2025 Tongariro Fire as at 26 Jan 2026. These included $43,377 Employee Payments of $43,377, Volunteer payment of $67,577 and Travel, Accom and Meal costs of $12.217.

1. You further advised that Employee payments may include payments for overtime and travel reimbursements. Under the provisions of the Official Information Act can you further advise:
(a) The breakdown between the overtime and travel re-imbursements made to paid staff.
(b) The number of paid staff who received overtime payments for this incident.
(c) The assigned duties of these staff at the incident.
(d) The total hours of Overtime paid out to these staff.
(e) The policy for paid staff relating to a deployment to a long duration event and what hours of attendance at the incident qualify for an overtime payment.

2. You further advised that Volunteer payments may include reimbursements for mileage, parking, petrol, travel costs or meals. Under the provisions of the Official Information Act can you further:
(a) Advise the breakdown of the costs that resulted in $67,000 in mileage, parking, petrol, travel and meals for this incident.
(b) Confirm that no payments were made to Volunteers in the form of a daily or hourly rate for their services.

Yours faithfully,

Alan Thompson