News Story
Part of Favona, a south Auckland suburb, took on a White Christmas look by the time firefighters got the better of a transformer blaze on Favona Road. A shed fire on private property spread to the electricity transformer and the blaze escalated when oil coolant caught alight. Extinguishing it had to await advice from Vector, after which firefighters fought the fierce fire using 2 foam branches. They left a carpet of snow-like foam. Meanwhile, busy Favona Road was closed for several hours. Earlier in the day there was a call-out to a crash involving five cars on Onehunga Mall, the result of a police chase through Mt Albert, Mt Roskill and Onehunga streets. At both incidents members provided support services including closing roads: it was the same later in the day at a motor accident at Takanini where power lines had been brought down.
