Preventing young people from setting fires is the goal of an education programme, that's been running for two decades.
New Zealand Fire chief executive and national commander Paul Baxter paid a visit to Rotorua for the 20th anniversary of the national Fire Awareness & Intervention Programme this week.
It is a free consequences-based education programme designed to stop young people, aged from 5 to 17, lighting fires.
Young New Zealanders are over represented among fire setting offenders. In 2013/14, more than 80 per cent of referrals were under 15.
Over the last 20 years, 12,845 children and young people throughout the country have participated in the programme.