News Story
Members responded to 5 calls today, and varied at that. The first was to a gas leak in Otara where a digger had clashed with a gas main. Within the hour there was call to suspicious white powder in premises at Avondale. And just before lunchtime the brigade was paged to a spillage of the chemical phenol in a medical centre at Milford. Nine people were affected, decontaminated and treated at the scene, though some were taken to hospital. Members assisted with cordons and traffic management. Mid-afternoon members were on their way to a fire in a mobile crane at Wiri. Flames also damaged an adjacent truck. And call number 5 for the day, paged just after 7pm was to a motor accident at the downtown intersection of Beach Road and Anzac Avenue. A bus had crashed into a tree. A car, also involved in the crash, ended up on the footpath. One occupant was trapped in the car and had to be freed by firefighters. Members provided traffic management at the busy intersection until the person was freed and transported to hospital and the bus and the car salvaged, operations taking about 2 hours.
