News Story
Yesterday's 3rd Alarm fire at Te Atatu turned into something of a marathon for our brigade: the long-duration job kept members busy for some 6 hours. The mid-afternoon blaze in a car dismantler's yard in McLeod Road created thick black smoke and flames that were visible across a wide area of West Auckland.Firefighters prevented the blaze spreading through a range of adjacent industrial holdings... but then discovered asbestos building materials may be have been involved.This prompted decontamination for affected personnel at the site. Members provided crowd and safety scene control, traffic management, assisted at the incident command centre and served meals from the mobile canteen which responded with third alarm appliances.Support operations concluded well after 9pm, more than 6 hours after the initial alarm:14 members were involved.
