News Story
Members who turned up at a "vehicle fire" in Mt Albert early this morning got a shock when they arrived - a pile of rubbish blocking several lanes on busy New North Road. Here's the story... a fire appliance was per chance following a rubbish truck when the firefighters noticed it was on fire. The crew alerted the driver of the truck, got him to stop and tried to extinguish the blaze. It was decided the best way to get at the flames and to minimise damage to the compactor-vehicle was to empty the 6 tonnes of mixed rubbish on to the roadway. Once the fire was out a small mountain of smelling rubbish remained which was later gathered up by a team of workers. Our Members maintained traffic management throughout, across the busy morning peak traffic hours. At the same time as this callout other members were attending a car vs house motor vehicle accident in Papatoetoe while two of our vehicles responded to a third alarm structure fire at Pukekohe
