News Story
Salvage has resumed today to recover a crashed rubbish truck in the North Shore suburb of Birkenhead. Late morning yesterday the truck left the road on a bend in Hebe Place, crashed into bush and capsized on to its side. A woman was killed, another person is in hospital. It was a long-duration task for emergency services to free the injured person and to recover the body of the deceased. Workers were faced with a scene on a steep, slippery, bush-clad slope at the foot of a no-exit road. Salvage, involving several heavy-haulage cranes, then continued off-road in difficult terrain and in heavy rain. But late afternoon it was decided to postpone operations until today because of these conditions and failing light. Our members responded in two vehicles: a third, the mobile canteen, later turned out to serve hot meals to emergency and other personnel on-site. Our Brigade was involved for 6 hours until operations were called off for the day.
