News Story
By sheer coincidence this morning's fire in Penrose mirrored, almost exactly, the blaze attended 24 hours before. Both involved commercial premises, they were situated in the Penrose/Te Papapa industrial area, both involving cavernous structures - each with confined interior fires which produced copious quantities of smoke. Today's blaze involved a paper processing facility: yesterday's was a palm kernel storage plant. Both calls were in the small hours, both escalated to third alarms and both premises were in cul-de-sacs. Smoke extraction became a focus from both buildings when the seat of the fire had been dealt-to. Some of our members from this morning's call were excused duty early-on to enable attendance at Anzac Day Dawn Parades.
