About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges faced by firefighters in New Zealand as they navigate funding issues and organizational pressures.

Firefighters are battling bosses under pressure to cut costs, but FENZ's failures have seen the organisation face Parliamentary scrutiny Firefighters appear to be in an endless standoff with the body that funds them, with neither side willing to budge Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Topics covered

• firefighters
• cost-cutting
• FENZ
• Parliamentary scrutiny
• funding standoff

Keywords

• firefighters
• FENZ
• cost-cutting
• Parliamentary scrutiny
• funding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FENZ

Places: Parliamentary

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