News Story
Our Brigade's mantra, "biggest and busiest", is never more meaningful. For the calendar year just ended our members responded to 713 call-outs, a record. This number was boosted by 79 incidents attended in December - the most calls ever attended in a month. The annual total for 2015, 713 calls, surpasses any other New Zealand volunteer brigade. And since these were all working calls (we respond only to confirmed emergencies and very few false alarms) the annual total for 2015 puts our brigade "up there". On a like-for-like basis, Auckland City, Manurewa and Papatoetoe are the only Auckland fire stations to attend more working calls in the 12 months for which latest figures are available.*
The Brigade's Chief Fire Officer, Glenn Teal, says the commitment given on a voluntary basis in responding to 713 calls is remarkable. "But this is only part of the story behind the team effort to administer a busy brigade, to ensure competency of all our members, to continue recruitment and to engage in projects to cater for the future as Auckland grows. The contribution is immense".
*NZFS Statistics: Table 66: Station Turnouts By Station For Year Ending June 2015
