THE YEAR IS 1987... EXCEPT IT’S NOT
Back then, Fleetwood Mac’s Little Lies was topping the charts — and firefighters were handed a state-of-the-art ladder truck.
Fast forward 38 years, and that same “vintage” truck is still in service.
Dunedin deserves more than a Plan D
NZPFU raises serious questions over FENZ's preparation into last weekends severe weather across Auckland - is this a result of pressure to reduce cost?
Hamilton firefighters have confirmed to the NZPFU they are making their way to the workshop to wait for their aerial appliance "to be put back together" to respond to Auckland fire.
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HORROR IN HAMILTON | Te Rapa Fire Station CLOSED | Hamilton City's second fire truck is also offine as FENZ fail to crew multiple fire trucks across NZ's 4th biggest city today @fonterra@Paula4Hamilton#FireCrisis
The @FireEmergencyNZ solution is to deprive the Manurewa community of their local fire truck, their local Manurewa firefighters and send them 135KM away so a fire investigation can begin. FENZ has lost it's way #FireCrisis
Wellingtonians are starting their working week without a fire truck. For the second day in a row there are no firefighters to crew the busiest fire truck in the country's capital city.
This is Hamilton's busiest fire truck. Today it sits empty - there are no firefighters. At the central fire station today, there are just 5 firefighters that will somehow attempt to cross-crew 5 different fire trucks to protect the country's forth most populous city.