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The New Zealand Fire Brigades' Institute (Inc) encourages and promotes the technical training of members of fire brigades and other related organisations.

06/09/2026

Mornin' everybody, Monday has rolled around again, and this week we are promoting our Foam Tender quiz https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScp_teKEmn1CIq9eWXVtReLXyJ70X1xfkr1ohb0rpH5y4ZpvA/viewform?usp=header
Not many of these around, and they have different setups between stations and regions.

Feel free to share any relevant information if you have one on station or have any experience with them!

31/08/2026

Well, well well, Monday has rolled around again, so lets get another one of the quizzes promoted:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLadYBiWGu_zPo3fTAoXsl5o8mQV0g6dksH_kA1mYbZgoRqQ/viewform?usp=header
This week is: IS4 - Working near electrical hazards.

(Hmm what has google image search got for us today?)

Smash that like, follow and share button, and we'd love to get some feedback and interaction with our followers, so reach out!

26/08/2026

The links on the How To Run Training section of our website have now been updated
https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/howtoruntraining
We'd love to hear from you on any great ideas you have for running training, if you find any of the training content useful or any general feedback at all!
If you have something you want to share, we would love to add this to our library so other brigades can consider using this too.
Like, Follow, Share - help grow our presence!

25/08/2026

Some of the feedback we've received recently is that people would love to see some more rural/natural environment/wildfire firefighting content. As a Council, we completely agree that we probably don't get provided with anywhere near enough to keep us as firefighters informed, educated and safe, and with the predicted super El Nino on its way to NZ this summer, we think it is time to prepare ourselves.
There isn't a hell of a lot in the available OI's/OSM, so we are reaching out to you, our members, to help us to collate some material that we can put together to help upskill others.
There is currently and there has been people deployed recently, and we'd love to hear from you (or from any contacts you've made while overseas) - what can you share with us?
There are some really smart cookies out there who have some great tips and info to share - please do reach out (comment here, flick us a DM or send us an email: [email protected]).

As a teaser, which I can't give too much away on, we're launching some audio content and some moving pictures with talkie talkie content soon, and we can definitely look to tie this material in!
We'd also love some safety points, discussion, quiz questions or material we can turn into questions, themes, ideas, links to great stuff we can pillage, or something ranging from short info bites to full-blown technical papers (or anything in between).

We look forward to starting some discussions and getting some input.

25/08/2026

Another update on getting our systems rolled over:
All of our content on the United Fire Brigades' Association of NZ Waterways runs are now in the new format. The links for all of these are here: https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/waterways
Winter, the perfect waterway competition practice time right? 🥶
These are one of the resources that many of our followers aren't aware we have, so check them out.
If you or your brigade want to help putting something like this together for any of the UFBA competition suite, drills or anything firefighting related really; we'd love to host it!

If we've missed one, got something wrong, or you've got any feedback at all, please drop us a line.
Go on, smash those like, follow and share buttons....

23/08/2026

Well since we managed to break the internet a couple of weeks ago when we released this updated quiz (or at least the internet broke for us), let's give the OI G2-1 Emergency Medical Support quiz another go - this time in the new format: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOC1Cv8six7h5CRe4W3fLUCmAmeOKzY9OMOGYPb3qAZr2j3Q/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Let us know if you like it better, hate it, or frankly, any feedback is good - we want to keep getting better; leave us a comment, flick us a DM, or really flesh it out via email ([email protected])

Chuck us a cheeky thumbs up, follow and share so we can spread the word - Facebook algorithms work in mysterious ways, and the more people engage, the wider the reach!

23/08/2026

As at 10:30pm, Sunday 23 August, we've now updated more of our quizzes to the new format.
All of the links to the OI/OSM quizzes (https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/osm-quizzes) are updated, as are the Fun and IFE Quizzes (https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/fun-quizzes), Airport Quizzes (https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/airports) and the EV/Batteries/Solar Quizzes (https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/electric-vehicles-batteries-solar).

We'll keep working on the others and update you as we progress.
If you spot something we've buggered up, or that's just a bit off, totally let us know!
It's been a hell of a process and I think we've consumed 78 olympic swimming pools of coffee while doing this (hmm, potential pump operator question incoming....), and lost a fair few hairs in the process.
The upside is, Councillor Tiny has got really good at Google Forms and President Andrew has got way better at editing the website, not that either of them want to consider a career change.

21/08/2026

Due to increased demand from our users and a the software provider we used for our OSM quizzes changing their plan/structure that we subscribed to, we have had to pivot and move all of the quizzes to a new platform. As an interim workaround, we have now loaded ALL of the OSM/OI quizzes into a Google Forms format while we work on a bigger and better solution.

As at 9pm 20/08/26 all of the OSM/OI quizzes linked from our website (https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/osm-quizzes) point to the new Google Forms.
The Fun Quizzes, IFE Quizzes and Online Technical Learning Quizzes are being worked on as time allows and these links will be updated as we progress through them.

Thanks for your messages of support, messages of concern and understanding as we work through this challenge - the feedback we have received really shows us how many firefighters and brigades use our products to help with their training, learning, skill development, knowledge and progression.

If you have any other feedback on how we can do things better, or how we can improve any of our material, or if you want to put your hand up to help create some learning tools, please reach out to us!
Leave a comment here, flick us a DM, or send us an email: [email protected]

17/08/2026

Whos this? New format!
BA Quiz OI E3-2:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSce4Cs9Q8rV5mUSk9JkTotZ_MC73y87sOAbUSMwkomBF3-bvA/viewform?usp=header

As previously mentioned, our old quiz/software provider has stopped working the way we were using it. Council member Shannon "Tiny" Taylor has transferred the quiz info into a new format to see if this is an acceptable replacement or just as a stop-gap measure until we find an appropriate alternative. Please please please give us some feedback on how this works for you, if there are any changes needed, what works well, what doesnt work, what you like and what you dont like about it (the quiz, not long walks along the beach and gherkins on your burger 🤮)
The more feedback we get, the better we can make these!
Flick us a DM, send us an email ([email protected]) or comment on our post or page.

17/08/2026

Thank you to all of those of our followers and members for the string of DM's, emails, txts and calls all in the same flavour: 'it looks like your website is broken', 'did you realise that your quizzes are unavailable', 'I really hope your quizzes come back online as we use these every week for training', 'why is involveme not working' and so on.
Turns out we have well and truly outgrown the provider we use, and have maxed out even our old legacy plan with them.
Bluntly, we have too much content that their system just isn't designed to be used the way we have been using it. To acquire enough 'live quizzes' on the current plan/system through involveme is mindblowingly expensive, even more so after currency conversion from USD to NZD!
The NZFBI Council is completely gutted that the hard work we put into this over the past couple of years and the team have been squirrelling away super hard in the background to look for an alternative since we first found out there was an issue. I am proud of our internal team for how this has been handled.
I'm about to post a link to a google version of the BA quiz - please give us some feedback on this format and what we could do to make it better etc.
If you have ideas, must haves, nice to haves, or any feedback really - let us know (via DM, email or the comments) as we do this for you and your brigade members - it needs to work, it needs to be easy, and it needs to be better than the standard OI forms (not that is a high bar right?!).
Please share this with your brigade members, other brigades and STCs' etc.
We'll begin to update the quiz links on our website as soon as we get each quiz developed and uploaded in a new format.
Again, sorry for the disruption here!

Andrew Cotter, President

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https://www.nzfirebrigadesinstitute.org/

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