News Story
Downtown Queen Street was awash this morning, despite fine weather. Firefighters were pumping out the flooded basement of a building on the corner of Queen and Wyndham Streets, the water rushing down the kerb, across the road and into drains. A broken water pipe caused the problem - overnight some millions of litres accumulated to a depth of about a metre in the basement shop. It took several hours' continuous pumping to pump out the water. Other shops fronting Queen Street were also affected. Members assisted with traffic management in Auckland's main thoroughfare and closed the footpath outside the affected building. The canteen attended to provide hot meals during the long-duration pumping job. The damage to stock in the store could be seen only once the water receded and access made. "It looks more like an earthquake than a flood", one of our members noted, "stock is littered just everywhere".
