some more information

so, like I said, we have two trucks, each has a call sign, 821 and 822, not sure of makes and models or specifications, 822 is being replaced this week with 821 and we are getting a new 821.



8229 is our minibus, which contains some equiptment for fire fighting, it is a 3.0 diesel turbo toyota hiace.



Our address is:

2 Kokiri Street
Ngongotaha

telephone (07) 357 4085

We have 4 duty crews, red, blue, green and brown. I am in blue watch (the best one). Every Friday from 6pm to Monday morning at 7am, there is a duty crew on call.

Sunday mornings is truck checks, a time to check all the equipment on the trucks etc. do some odd jobs around the station and clean the toilets.

We used to have a siren tower to notify us of a call, it got knocked down in a car crash, so we now just rely on a pager.

The date has come through for my training course, 6-12th july, the training consists of four elements, basic skills, first aid, fire ground tactics and the most terrifying, breathing apparatus (BA).

BA traing consists of entering a burning building (training tower) and finding a dead body (dummy) all with fire licking your helmet and an interior temperature of 800 degrees plus or maybe less.

I'll let you know how it all goes in a future post.