StrypeyMay 6

Support the firefighters strikes around Aotearoa today! Assemble for 4:30pm Wed 6 May, at the locations listed here;

https://direemergency.nz/events/

More strike action is scheduled for Friday, and throughout May.

#DIRE #FENZ #firefighting #strikes #TradeUnions #unions #Aotearoa #NZ

NZPFU Strike Event Locations - DIRE EMERGENCY

DIRE EMERGENCY
ClareBear 💚 Apr 18

However, the government in 2024 cut back the increases sought by FENZ to the insurance levy that provides nearly all its almost $800m revenue.

It then told FENZ to save $50m a year.

This is what you get voting for this coalition of chaos

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/community/592737/hutt-valley-firefighters-place-ban-on-truck-with-multiple-faults

#nzpol #FENZ #cutskill #onetermgovt #DitchThePricksIn26

Hutt Valley firefighters place ban on truck with 'multiple faults'

The truck went to a fire in Petone just after midnight, but its pump failed, the NZPFU said in a notice to Fire and Emergency.

RNZ
ClareBear 💚 Apr 2

Based on 50 days commitment, the Board Chair will go from being paid $1283 a day to $1831.20 a day. That is nearly $100 more than the wages for a 42-hour week for a Senior Firefighter with up to 10 years’ experience.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2604/S00002/fenz-board-pay-jumps-79-while-firefighters-go-hungry-barely-earning-the-minimum-wage.htm

#nzpol #FENZ

ClareBear 💚 Feb 25
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587953/volunteer-firefighters-renew-calls-for-acc-mental-health-cover "The fact that you can go out and be drunk and wrap a car around a power pole and be covered by ACC, but if you're volunteering to save lives, you're not covered.”
#nzpol #volunteerwork #fenz
Volunteer firefighters renew calls for ACC mental health cover

LandSAR is pushing the government to reconsider, saying the Mt Maunganui tragedy showed the level of trauma volunteers are repeatedly exposed to.

RNZ
Urban CameraJan 13

A monochrome photographic portrait from between 1865 and the 1920s taken by Willi Fenz, Schönhauser-Allee 146, Berlin…
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2026-4264
https://privatsammlungen.net/2026-4264/
#Fenz #Berlin #photography #antique #collecting #MonochromePhotography #BWPhotography #CDV #CabinetPhotography

ClareBear 💚 Nov 5, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577961/fenz-aims-to-save-50m-a-year-we-can-t-keep-doing-everything-for-everybody

Keep rimmer well away from this

#nzpol #FENZ

FENZ aims to save $50m a year: 'We can't keep doing everything for everybody'

Core firefighting and rescue duties are exempt in a proposed new restructure, but management is talking about doing less.

RNZ
ClareBear 💚 Oct 2, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/574831/loafers-lodge-firefighter-refuses-award-calling-it-premature-and-inappropriate “Being required to adapt and change in order to suit organisational shortfalls, although worth highlighting, is not something we should be openly celebrating.”

"As a front-line officer I will not legitimise the fact that FENZ policy continues to limit the tactical options available to me, and I will not stand by quietly allowing them to be accepted and recognised as the new normal," Townsley wrote.
Here’s a man of principle, rare species in these times. #nzpol #fenz

Loafers Lodge firefighter refuses award calling it 'premature and inappropriate'

Clark Townsley has refused a citation for his work on the fatal blaze because he is so angry about the lack of equipment crews had to rescue people.

RNZ
Grant Dec 6, 2022

Wow, #FENZ settle pay dispute (subject to vote) with 24% rise, backdated to 2021.

Total cost of the offer is expected to be around $145 million, which is $100m higher than the offer on the table in July #NZPol #FireFighter #Fire #rescue #FirstResponder

Stu Nov 20, 2022
Classroom destroyed at Orini school due to tree. #FENZ