News Story
After a quiet holiday weekend, there were 3 calls at once to end Auckland's Anniversary Day.The first, late afternoon, was a turnout to a second alarm house fire at Long Bay on the North Shore. A two-storey house on the waterfront, was well alight when first firefighters arrived... they were handicapped by a lack of good water supplies. Members, joined by Silverdale colleagues, managed traffic... first the emergency vehicles accessing Long Bay Reserve, then hundreds of vehicles as they exited the car parks. The second call was to a motor vehicle accident on Scenic Drive, Waiatarua, where a car lost control on a bend and took out a guard rail, the end of which impaled the windscreen. Members closed the road while the victims were being treated and the vehicle salvaged. At the same time there was a second alarm fire in the former Valentine's restaurant in Manukau City. Both fires are being treated as suspicious. A total of 34 members responded to these incidents... a few managed to attend two: as the Long Bay event was winding down some travelled to either Waiatarua or Manukau City.
