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T'was the Week Before...
22 December 2015
The crash on Te Rakau Drive caused detours for some 3 hours
Last evening's fire at Birkenhead severely damaged the bungalow


Everyone's busy in the run-up to Christmas! Our Brigade's no different. In the last 5 days members have responded to 22 calls. On Friday here were 3 callouts. There was no let-up on Saturday with 6 calls including a long-duration job at Ti Rakau Drive, Pakuranga where two cars had collided, one smashing into a traffic light standard and the driver absconding. Some members went straight on to another car crash in New North Road, Mt Albert, and then continued to a car versus power pole in Blockhouse Bay Road. On Sunday there were calls to 2 house fires. Monday's tally of 6 calls included a vegetation fire at Stillwater, a 2nd alarm in a CBD building, and a house fire at Birkenhead on Auckland's North Shore. So far, today's calls have been to a gas-line rupture in Pt Chevalier, a 3-car crash in New Windsor, a house fire and delivery of the Ablutions Trailer to the ongoing vegetation fire at Stillwater.

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