Story: Fires and fire services

More links and websites

• New Zealand Fire Service

  The website of the Fire Service.

• New Zealand Firefighters Calendar

  The website of the popular calendar.

• Review of fire legislation

  This page on the Department of Internal Affairs website shows the progress of a review of laws around firefighting organisations that began in 2012.

• United Fire Brigades’ Association of New Zealand

  The organisation that represents New Zealand’s fire brigades and their members.

More suggestions and sources

• Arnold, Rollo. New Zealand’s burning: the settler’s world in the mid 1880s. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1994.

• Bacon, Ron. Fire Service. Auckland: Waiatarua Publishing, 2002.

• Boon, Kevin. Ballantyne’s fire. Petone: Nelson Price Milburn, 1990.

• McLean, Gavin. Fires and firefighting. Wellington: Grantham House, 1992.