car fire

Car on fire, Tauranga Direct Road, Hamurana, 15th June 2008, 3.25am.

got up in the middle of the night, Made the first truck, yeah. Car on fire by the side of the road, looks like it was stolen and torched.

Helped with high pressure hose, road cones and making car safe.

Packed up and back in bed by 4.30am

motor vehicle accident (MVA)

Hamurana, 11th June 2008, 2.03am.

Car versus fence, my first car accident, quite nervy. turned out to be a single car accident, one female occupant was injured and taken to hospital.

Assisted in putting lady on stretcher, running out hose and moving the car to a safe spot.

Back home by 3.30am.

fire call

Building fire, Rotorua, 9th June 2008, 11.39am.

I was at work when this call came through, but with it being a three truck call, I started to make my way out the door but received a 'stand down' page, so returned to work.

Fire call

Scrub fire, 7th June 2008, 12.20pm, Ngongotaha.

At last a big one. Again my duty weekend so I was on the first truck. Nice big scrub fire on some local farm land that had been cleared of shruberies and the ensuing bonfire got blown out of control setting fire to the hillside. I assisted in setting up the forestry packs and water supply.

Then one of my watch, Brian, called for assistance, and I promptly spent the next two hours on the end of the branch (nozzle) fighting the fire.

Once all the fire was out, we packed up and returned to station to restock the trucks, clean all the gear and then go home.

Returned home 5 hours after leaving.

It was bloody good fun, but very hard work.

fire call

chimney fire, ngongotaha, 6th June 2008, 7.16pm,

Made the first truck as it was my duty weekend, appeared to be a cloud of sparks from a chimney, no fire. Neighbour saw the sparks and called the station, nice bloke to have living next to you.

fire call

House fire, Tihiotonga, 5th June 2008, 5.36pm.

Again didn't make the truck, so was on station as back up, both trucks were sent back to station as the fire was taken care of before they arrived.

fire call - dead body!

Trees on fire, Hamurana Road, Ngongotaha. 5th June 2008, 3.09am.

Didn't get on the truck so stayed at the station as backup. Weird call, when the truck got there, they extinguished the fire and found a dead body on the side of the road. Was a local 61yr old resident, who had tried to fight the fire with a hose pipe and unfortunatly died of a heart attack.

Our sympathies go out to his family and friends.

The fire was just a small bush fire caused by hot embers from a log fire.