Volunteer Firefighters
Double Blow: Tasman's rural resilience
As a second weather bomb lashed the Tasman region, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes was on the ground with rural residents, still battered and bruised from the first flood and staring down the barrel of another… Audio
Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson
Today owner and managing director of Vertech IT services, Daniel Watson, shares some practical tips he's just picked up from doing a volunteer firefighters basic training course. Audio
Local hero: 46 years fighting fires - Rodney Triplow
Rodney Triplow has been on the front line fighting fires for forty-six years. He joined the Havelock North Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1973, working his way up the ranks to Chief Fire Officer. On… Audio
Volunteer firefighter on trial for crash on way to fire scene
A volunteer firefighter who was driving a Fire Service support vehicle that crashed into a car, injuring the driver, has gone in trial in the Wellington District Court. Audio
Lake Coleridge's firefighters quit en masse
Lake Coleridge's volunteer firefighters have quit en masse at having their engine taken off them. Audio