Thread: Welcome to the volly room

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 than anywhere else

Stations like Westgate? Should they be manned 24/7?

The new Te Atatu station now manned 24/7 with perms after it's relocation. Vollies are now more of an operational support brigade. Not on 1st alarm callout.
Note the perms have the Bronto that was at Avondale. Just the PRT there now. Vollies have their own truck. Many years ago when Pt. Chev closed down. the community was told there would always be 2 appliance at Avondale for them.

Glen Eden was once a volly station until their numbers dropped too low and now they are no more.

What will happen to Henderson when it moves?

The Fire Service is on a winner paying for vollies to man stations that demographically should be 24/7

The day crew are called Yellow watch

Titirangi have a Yellow watch. The vollies there are top notch. The annual callout figures don't warrant having 24/7 paid staff with Glen Eden and Avondale not too far away


This is a subject that will raise heckles on some and disbelief in others