Rural Fires

Civil Defence and Rural Fires seeks to minimise or manage risks to the community from a wide range of hazards and the use of fire as a land management tool.

This is achieved through activities such as:

  • Emergency planning with a wide range of community agencies
  • Training emergency management personnel
  • Public education on emergency preparedness
  • Providing facilities and equipment for emergency response
  • Co-ordinating the response to and recovery from emergency events
  • Regulating and education on the safe use of outdoor burning
  • Responding to wildfires in rural areas

Rural Fire Plan 2009/10 (PDF, 782kb, open in new window) - This Rural Fire Plan is prepared and approved by the Dunedin City Council to comply with the Forest and Rural Fire regulations 2005.

Last reviewed: 23 Nov 2009 12:17pm


Dunedin City Council