git:20261008.c801bf3 to git:20261008.b380d3c

---

name: fenz-incidents-nz

description: "Query official Fire and Emergency New Zealand operational reports and annual incident datasets by place, type and period."

license: MIT

compatibility: "Requires Python 3.10+ and network access for live data"

metadata:

thecolab.category: "emergency"

thecolab.source_owner: "Fire and Emergency New Zealand"

thecolab.source_type: "official"

thecolab.auth: "none"

thecolab.access_mode: "html-readonly"

thecolab.data_class: "public"

thecolab.writes: "false"

thecolab.browser: "false"

thecolab.risk: "medium"

thecolab.cache_ttl: "24h"

thecolab.schema_version: "1"

thecolab.skill_type: "html-readonly"

thecolab.pack: "nz-public-data"

thecolab.source_url: "https://www.fireandemergency.nz/incidents-and-news/incident-reports/"

thecolab.allowed_domains: "www.fireandemergency.nz"

thecolab.last_verified: "2026-10-08"

thecolab.health: "healthy"

thecolab.maintainer: "@adam91holt"

---

# FENZ Incidents NZ

Use the read-only Python CLI to retrieve and filter records exposed by the official first-party source.

Every command supports `--json`, bounded requests, stable exit codes, source URLs and retrieval timestamps.

## Commands

```bash

# list recent incident resources

python3 scripts/cli.py recent --json

# search incident resources

python3 scripts/cli.py search QUERY --json

# filter by region

python3 scripts/cli.py region NAME --json

# filter by incident type

python3 scripts/cli.py type NAME --json

# find an incident identifier

python3 scripts/cli.py incident ID --json

# discover annual statistical data

python3 scripts/cli.py annual --year VALUE --json

# discover regional trend resources

python3 scripts/cli.py trend --region VALUE --json

```

Add `--limit N` (1–100) to bound any command. Human output is the default.

Operational commands default to **yesterday in Pacific/Auckland**, across North, Central and

South. Use `--day Wednesday` to choose a published weekday from the rolling seven-day archive,

and `--report-region north|central|south|all` to bound requests. FENZ requires both `day` and

numeric `region` URL parameters; the unparameterised incidents URL is not a feed.

If `--day` is today's NZ weekday, the source returns today's **partial** feed, not last week's.

Blank optional fields are retained with `incomplete_fields`; only incident number and time are required.

An upstream/schema failure in any requested region fails the whole command (no partial result).

Results are sorted newest first within the selected day. `region NAME` filters published

locations; `--report-region` selects FENZ's broad operational region.

## Coverage and interpretation

- Do not expose details beyond those FENZ publishes.

- Preliminary operational labels are not final classifications.

- Absence from the public feed does not prove no incident occurred.

- No notification or dispatch function is provided.

- FENZ says this ICAD extract is incomplete and unsuitable for statistical analysis; use annual

datasets for statistics. A selected day is not an exhaustive search of the seven-day archive.

- Direct requests can be blocked by Incapsula. A blocked response is reported explicitly and

cannot count as a successful live assertion.

- JSON uses `meta` provenance and a `results` array; errors add `error: {code, type, message}`.

- JSON envelopes and records carry `source_url`, `publisher`, `licence`, `retrieved_at`, and

source-stated `latest_data`. Website material defaults to CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; check dataset terms.

The CLI parses FENZ's labelled seven-day incident records and marks them preliminary. `annual`

discovers an official financial-year download and aggregates its tab-delimited exposure rows by

regional council and incident type. `trend` applies the same aggregation across published years.

Every annual result retains dataset URL, metadata context, financial year and row-unit caveats.

## Resources

- `scripts/cli.py` — canonical command entrypoint

- `scripts/test_contract.py` — deterministic repository contract audit

- `scripts/smoke_test.py` — parser fixture and bounded live probe

- `tests/fixtures/incidents.html`, `annual-resources.html` and `annual.tsv` — source fixtures

- `tests/fixtures/incomplete-synthetic.html` — synthetic blank-Location regression shaped like F4557313

- `tests/fixtures/incidents-live-visible.txt` — two real published records, captured as visible

text; `blocked-live.html` — the direct HTTP challenge response

- `references/source-profile.json` — command schema, source allowlist and warnings

- `references/source-notes.md` — feasibility, provenance and source limits