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Chris Jensen
Fire – Barbecue fire safety
After what seemed to be a long and wet winter, the fine weather has finally arrived. With this comes the late afternoon entertaining and, in...
Fire – Region responds to Matakana fire
News from local fire stations At the end of last month there was a very big fire in a plastics factory in West Auckland. This...
Fire – Care needed with fire ashes
Winter arrived with a vengeance in the last week of June, with torrential rain across the greater Auckland area. Hopefully readers took heed of my...
Fire – Towering achievements
On May 28, approximately 850 fire fighters took part in the Auckland Sky Tower Stair Challenge as a fundraiser for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer NZ....
Fire – Pre-winter jobs
The volunteer brigades in your area not only turn out for fire, but for all manner of emergencies, many of which are brought about by...
Fire – Takatu fire control
By Chris Jensen Readers of last month’s publication may recall the topic of the fire article was the supply of water in remote rural locations....
Fire – For the want of water
I recently attended a Fire Course in Rotorua together with 13 other volunteer recruits. Most of them were from cities or towns with a reticulated...
Fire – “Get down, get low, get out”
Recently an open day was held at Matakana Fire Station. About 100 people visited, looking through the station, fire trucks and displays. Many were family...
Fire – Reducing the fire risk
By Chris Jensen Recently I holidayed in Aussie and noticed that on the news, forest fires featured heavily. Each day a new fire, in...
Fire – Smoke alarms a life saver
Any death in a house fire is unacceptable. Unacceptable to the Fire Service, the community and especially to the victim’s family. It’s ironic that our...
