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The run of turnouts began on Friday at 11pm with a Second Alarm shop fire in Symonds Street, Eden Terrace. Members had no sooner set up support services when there were two further calls, to a motor vehicle accident in Manurewa and another, simultaneously, at Glenbrook in South Auckland.
The string of incidents kept our people busy into the small hours including an alert at Auckland International Airport and then later in the morning, a fire in a railway wagon in Penrose followed by a Second Alarm turnout to a house fire in Takapuna. Members closed surrounding streets while fire-fighting operations continued. The house was left badly damaged. Tonight's call was in Neilson Street, Onehunga, a 2 car motor accident. The cross-town route was busier than usual because of the international Rugby League match staged at nearby Mt Smart Stadium. Members assisted with traffic management.
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25 November 2017
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Our brigade was involved showing some of our vehicles and equipment, using the event for the first time to actively promote recruitment with custom-made signs and flags to attract visitors' attention.
Sirens and Sounds was held at Avondale with a day-long continuous programme of emergency services' personnel showing their skills.
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But it was the Friday night \"Welcome to Auckland\" function which was our biggest contribution with an on-stage presentation showing the diversity of our members which reflects the many ethnicities we serve in our communities across Greater Auckland. Our presentation, enhanced by performances by Tahitian dancers and the hip-hop group \"Fresh\", was very well received, later highly praised by UFBA and Fire and Emergency executives. They said the message we portrayed shows the way towards their mission for diversity and change within the overhaul of present fire and emergency services to communities nationwide.
On Saturday night our Brigade held its Annual Honours ceremony in conjunction with the Conference Dinner.
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+ Members put in more than 3,500 hours during the year training
+The 12 months were free of any injury accidents to our members while on duty
+ Annual SMS targets were not only met, but exceeded
+ Response times, by far, met minimum turnout times for volunteer brigades.
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Barely had people returned to their homes, when there was a call to a car vs truck on Great South Road in Mt Wellington. This was a head-on collision with three people in the car badly trapped. Great South Rd was completely blocked, and Operational Support personnel established road blocks at both ends of the incident. This was mercifully only a one hour incident for our brigade, as a couple of members had already been in attendance in Manurewa and were by now looking forward to some sleep!
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They're Richard Cuthbert and Dan Scott. The vacancies were caused by the recent promotion of Ross Bay to Deputy Chief Fire Officer and the end of a secondment for Peter Duncan who has been acting-Senior Station Officer and did not apply to continue in the role. Richard Cuthbert is appointed SSO effective from 15th May while Dan Scott's position takes effect from the beginning of next year, the date SSO Ric Carlyon reduces in rank a further step, to Station Officer, towards retirement.
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Members mobilised to Kohimarama Road where a land-slide threatened \"San Remo\", a block of apartments. Residents told of hearing a roar before a wall of mud, water and stones rushed down the cliff-face behind the apartments and crashed into the building. In one case the torrent smashed a door off its hinges before cascading through the apartment. \"San Remo\" and neighbouring buildings were evacuated with several residents at first feared buried in the mud, but later accounted for. It was the missing persons and instability of the land that triggered attendance of the Fire Service's Urban Search and Rescue team. Our members closed roads, maintained cordons and turned out the canteen to provide hot drinks for those evacuated and emergency workers. Other members attended 4 storm events at the same time - shops flooded in Glendowie, a road closure because of a fallen tree near Whitford, a partial road closure on Tamaki Drive at a slip and, on the same road, a motor accident. And Debbie's not done yet... we were paged to assist at flooding in Maraetai this morning, and further downpours are forecast for this afternoon.
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Deep floodwaters created a lake across Great North Road, New LynnT
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The car, extensively damaged in the crash at Kingseat during today's storm
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SSO Quinn Webster, left, signing advice about dangers in the kitchen...
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Destroyed houses in Colebrook, Tasmania,1967. Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
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The crew braved the heat of the day: Alex Chan See, Melani Falaniko, Nigel Hohaia and Nasif Kahn
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Evacuees line up for refreshments from the canteen in Glen Innes
Waiatarua: the car left the winding road and crashed into bush
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document.write("The Brigade attended 3 events overnight, all non-fire call-outs. The first was a request for the mobile canteen to go to Felton Matthew Ave, Glen Innes where residents had been evacuated from their homes during a police Armed Offenders operation. The canteen set up in a supermarket car park and provided late-night refreshments for scores of people until, around midnight they were allowed to return to their homes. Just after that the second call was to assist at a road accident in New Lynn. A young man died at the scene in Rua Road. At about half past five members attended the third call in the Waitakere Ranges where a car had crashed into bush off Scenic Drive. One male occupant was taken into police custody: the female was taken to hospital by ambulance. Members assisted with traffic management while police undertook inspection of the scene and the vehicle was recovered. ");
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10 January 2017
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Deployment of OS personnel is discussed at our Brigade's command point
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document.write("Investigations continue today into the cause of last night's fire in a building, part of a complex of factories, offices and warehouses in Avondale. Mid-evening an automatic fire alarm and sprinkler system alerted the Fire Service, and a 3rd Alarm response resulted. Firefighters found, and extinguished, the blaze in the smoke-filled premises. Our members provided a full range of support services on-site, including traffic management, scene security, refreshments, lighting and command unit duties. ");
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Personnel enjoy a meal and a break in firefighting at the canteen
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document.write("Our brigade's operations at a bush fire came to an end late last night when the ablutions trailer was returned to Auckland. The fire burned through about 5 hectares within a forest plantation at Makarau, north of Kaukapakapa where firefighters were involved over 2 days. We supported them by taking both the mobile canteen and the ablutions trailer. 15 of our members were involved in the event. As well as preparing meals on site, we provided traffic management for fire services' vehicles involved in a water supply shuttle, travelling the forest's narrow, unsealed and steep roads. ");
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