News Story
The Brigade's been busy with a succession of calls tonight which has kept members busy from early evening to late night. A brigade's summer barbecue function was interrupted by the first call, a truck versus power pole accident in Penrose. Greenpark Road was closed to all traffic because the pole was unstable, snapped at the base. Just as our barbecue was ending there were two simultaneous calls, one to a second alarm house fire on the North Shore at Campbells Bay where it was initially reported that the occupants may have been trapped inside the burning dwelling. In addition to usual support duties we ferried breathing apparatus cylinders for replenishment at Takapuna. The other call was also a long duration job, a major gas leak in Ponsonby Road. This necessitated traffic management, crowd control and evacuation of bars, restaurants and other business near the busy Pollen Street intersection until Vector workmen could stem the leak. The fourth callout tonight was to Coxhead Road in Manurewa, but this turned out to be a small fire.
