NZ has threatened to deduct pay from firefighters participating in any further strikes. New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) members voted last month to undertake industrial action.

A group of female firefighters made New Zealand's first women's firefighter calendar and it raised nearly $170,000 USD for breast cancer research. Only about 6 percent of New Zealand's professional ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- Firefighters in New Zealand performed a haka to pay tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of first responders who died in the line of duty on September 11th. The tribute took ...

Almost 2,000 professional firefighters throughout New Zealand held a one-hour strike on December 19 against plans to drive down their wages, as well as the understaffing of the fire service and the ...

New Zealand’s National Party-led government has seized on a fire that broke out in Auckland during a brief firefighters’ strike on January 9 to escalate a vicious propaganda campaign against the ...

Frontline firefighters and emergency communications staff across Aotearoa are escalating industrial action as tensions grow between the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union and Fire and ...

The Alliance views the fire service crisis as part of a broader systemic failure impacting the entire country. The Alliance Party is backing the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) as ...

Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) has sent 22 firefighters to Victoria, Australia to help fight the catastrophic bushfires. They departed on Monday morning and will return to New Zealand on 2 ...

Fire and Emergency NZ has threatened to deduct pay from firefighters participating in any further strikes. New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) members voted last month to undertake ...

Cinnamon Filipiak, 32, originally from New Zealand, is serving the County Durham community as an on-call firefighter at Barnard Castle Fire Station.