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Today is International Firefighters Day and we’d like to say a huge thanks to all our Firefighters - you’re the best in the galaxy.
May the 4th be with...

The new service - Fire and Emergency New Zealand


https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/budget-2016-303m-merge-and-modernise-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-fire-services

Taken from the Arrowtown Volunteer Fire Station Facebook page.
From The Southland Times on Monday

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BRADS you up here for the challenge this weekend?

BRADS see your station is on this page
https://www.facebook.com/FireUpNZ?fref=ts

your not wrong there BRADS. It can put down 11,000L while on the move. Carries 2000L of foam to mix with it. Would have been ideal for the photo you posted

Auckland Airport
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The emergency services day went quite well. Long day but good to see the kids young and old enjoying the day

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Reminder the emergency service day is on this Saturday.
Ryan PM me if you are going and I tell you where to find me. Same 300winmag if you want to take your boy along.

There will be a lot to...

Wow open up a can of worms.

I hear what Mohawk is saying and I have quite strong feelings along the same lines but keep my head down (nearly had it chopped off recently)

Auckland is different...

Another Hoorah for the mighty 6/1
Our Mitsi

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I think these 2 advertising photos are symbolic of not just fire vollies but volunteering in general
(hope I haven't breach any copyright laws posting them. if so will delete them)

Can see...

Awesome
How many crew does she take?

Awesome stumpy would like them

Yeah right, I'm a sales rep by day. Too many Flat Whites and lunches. Might go along and support a couple of our guys.
Take it you are?

Emergency services open day on Queens Wharf.
Pack the kids on the train to Britomart and walk across the road. Ryan let me know if you go. Be good to meet Liam

More info here Home Page - Staying...

Seen it a UFBA conferences.
Not keen on the crew sitting in the back and looking at a TV screen to see what up the front

Mitsi with 39Ks

Type ones are a great tool for rural/urban districts. 2000L. Hose reel, 41mm and LPD. Ideal for scrubbies, car fires, knock down a house fire as well as anything else we are likely...

Full crew is officer + 3 BA wearers. Anything less is short crewed when responding in your truck.
We have a operational support van used for medicals. Minimum of two. One must be a class 1 or 2...

We have been like that since the late 1980s. We have some who are fire fighters only, some who are 1st responders only and some who do both. Works well. Majority of our calls are medical and likewise...

How is your brigade on it? Do some just want to do fires only, not bedsit oldies till the ambo arrives?

Been quiet most of the year then gone busy since Xmas started

Had one of the lads come over this morning to help knock down our chimney. Said we would run the lead throught the kitchen window...

Medical?

Comms can send information messages to CFO/DCFO pagers only.
Learned a long time ago to read the pager before jumping out windows or leaping fences.
Thumbed a ride to the station with one of the...