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January / February 2006 – Issue No. 16
The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine
The heat is on
January / February 2006
Issue No. 16
Fire & Rescue is the flagship
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Fire Service.
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Level 9, 80 The Terrace, Wellington.
We are happy to consider ideas
for stories and features.
Front cover: Northland rural and
volunteer firefighters talk tactics while
fighting a Mangonui scrub fire.
Story on page 8.
Picture: Northern Advocate.
Back cover: A call-out in Auckland is
captured from high above.
Picture: Kerry Marshall
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Events
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire brigade.................................3
Starting over..................................................................................................4
A sign of respect.........................................................................................4
Ohope brigade in good hands............................................................5
And stay out!.................................................................................................6
One step at a time...................................................................................7
Cover story New Zealand’s burning..........................................................................8
Incidents
Oamaru to bring back the beef.....................................................10
Plastics recyclers will rebuild.............................................................10
Hazmat callout a fair cop.................................................................11
“Don’t forget, we parked by the fire”..........................................12
A big fan.......................................................................................................12
Third time unlucky..................................................................................12
Around the bend......................................................................................13
Combusti-bulls...........................................................................................13
Gott in Hemel!..........................................................................................14
Don’t give me that rubbish!...............................................................16
Ute-y call......................................................................................................16
Rotorua’s newest lake..........................................................................16
Lesson learned too late.......................................................................17
Family flees flames................................................................................17
Profile Performance driven................................................................................18
The Canterbury crusader....................................................................19
Awards
Two surnames, 75 years.....................................................................20
Safety message spreading like wildfire.......................................20
Firefighter blazes a trail.......................................................................21
They’ll be honoured................................................................................22
Obituaries They’ll be remembered........................................................................23
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Sport Evening the score....................................................................................24
Sport Council Events Calendar 2006..........................................24
A favourite returns..................................................................................25
Gazette Notices..................................................................................................28-29
Appointments....................................................................................30-31
Also featuring Someone has a beef with the taxman..........................................6
Light-fingered locals hit firefighters... twice!..............................19
Scottie’s corner..........................................................................................26
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Events
Out of the
frying pan...
Otahuhu firefighter Stephen Ritson’s past
caught up with him in a good way recently.
The 31 year old was awarded the Iraq Medal for
Campaign Service for his part in the invasion of the Gulf
state in 2003.
Picture courtesy of Stephen Ritson
Before joining the Fire Service, Stephen was a soldier in
the British Royal Marines, and was in the first wave of
helicopters to land in Iraq on March 20, 2003 as part of
the US and British-led invasion.
The native of Newcastle in north-east England fought on
the Al Faw peninsula in Southern Iraq before moving
with his unit – 40 Commandos – to control the city of
Basra.
“A helicopter went down on the first night and there was
a fair bit of fighting early on, but then it settled down.”
A measure of the ferocity of fighting Stephen faced is that
he describes Kosovo, where he had served earlier, as
“pretty quiet”.
Picture: Michael Bradley
...into the
fire brigade
Things are much more settled for the Geordie-comelately now that he has moved to New Zealand with his
partner of six years, Sara, who has joined the police.
After painting cranes for a time on the Auckland
waterfront the former soldier and teacher landed a job
as a career firefighter.
“I was surprised to get in to be honest, because there
was a lot of competition. It (firefighting) is totally
different. It’s hard work, even though I’ve never been to
a big fire.”
While he waits for that big fire, Stephen’s biggest
challenge will be making himself understood, as anyone
who has watched Auf Weidersehen, Pet will
understand.
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January / February 2006
Events
Starting over
Picture cour tesy
of Gary Jackson
Fire & Rescue revisits some of the biggest fires
of 2005 and finds hope, not devastation.
It was one of the biggest fires of the year. Jobs were in
jeopardy and a small South Island town was staring ruin
in the face as the Fonterra dairy factory in Takaka become
a raging inferno in June.
Six months later, the factory is up and running, with
better facilities than ever, and the black clouds that hung
over Takaka in winter have revealed their silver lining.
Fonterra poured $30 million into rebuilding the plant –
which now makes milk powder – and Takaka CFO Philip
Woolf says the 200 contractors in town over the winter
turned the usual down time into boom time.
“There’s two sides to every coin, but I didn’t think that on
the 21st of June, I can tell you. I thought we were going
to end up with a car park.”
It’s a similar story at Claddagh vineyard in the Wairarapa.
The entire 2005 vintage and the best part of the 2004
vintage were lost to fire in September, but that didn’t stop
the vineyard having the best Toast Martinborough festival
in its history.
Whangarei’s Quarry Gardens has been hit three times by
suspected arsonists since November, but manager David
Muir says the gardens will improve in the long-run
because of the damage.
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The first fire, on November 19, destroyed about 10
percent of the gardens, which are run by volunteers.
“One of the benefits – though it’s doubtful you can use
the word benefit – is that we opened a bush restoration
fund, giving members of the public the chance to
contribute.”
The people of Whangarei took the opportunity they were
given, donating hundreds of plants, thousands of seeds
and $5000 cash.
A meeting was held at the gardens in January to discuss
ways of preventing future fires, including the possibility
that the 70-80 households in the vicinity of the gardens
could form a neighbourhood watch scheme to keep an
eye on the area.
Picture: Nelson
A sign of respect
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Six months after the Takaka fire Philip Woolf is
looking to the future with an historic undertaking.
Philip, or Joe as the locals call him, was signatory to the
first formal memorandum of understanding between a
fire brigade and their constituent Maori community.
Following a fatal car accident six years ago in which two
elders from the local iwi died, Philip set about improving
the understanding of Maori cultural needs at times such
as these.
On Sunday, January 15, that resulted in the Collingwood
and Takaka brigades signing the memorandum at
Onetahua Marae outside Takaka, watched on by national
maori advisor Piki Thomas.
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An Ohope volunteer firefighter proves bravery isn’t just about battling fires.
Dallas Hands is one of four firefighters
to pass the gruelling, three-month
senior firefighter course that saw
most of the original 28 applicants
from the Bay/Waikato region fall by
the wayside.
Most couldn’t manage the theory side
of the course, but Dallas passed,
despite the fact that he can’t read.
“I’m dyslexic and I had to learn it all
by heart,” he said. “My wife,
Charmaine, had to read and write for
me, and could have passed the course
herself.
“Most people found the theory
hard, or they didn’t have the time
to do it.”
Australia to do the officer’s course at
some stage. They said we’d pass,”
Dallas said.
you that having a reading and writing
disability does not stop you from
doing this type of work.”
“I’ve been firefighting for 13 years.
The way the Fire Service is educating
staff is changing. It used to be that
they’d come to you one day and say
‘you’re now a senior firefighter’ but
now they bring you up through
courses.”
The senior firefighters’ examination
ended with a practical, four-day
course in Tauranga at the end of
November.
The way the
fire service is
educating staff
is changing.
Many hours spent burning the
midnight oil with his wife and fellow
Ohope firefighter Lee Cornell – who
also passed the course – meant that
Dallas is now a senior firefighter, and
fire chiefs who watched the four
applicants slug through the course
are in good spirits.
Regional training manager Roy Veal
said the way Dallas had been helped
by his wife and colleague to complete
the course theory was an excellent
example of teamwork.
“The bosses were pleased. They said
they wouldn’t hesitate to send us to
“He produced a very good result, did
very well in the course. Which shows
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Theory was put into practise, with
applicants having to deal with
scenarios including car fires and
crashes, people being trapped inside
smoke-filled buildings, electrocutions,
and victims being caught in machinery
or stuck up in trees.
At the end of it, the Eastern Bay had
three new senior firefighters.
The next step in their career
advancement will be to go to the
annual volunteer officer’s course in
Australia, after which they will be
qualified to run their own station.
One thing is certain: if you’re stuck in
a smouldering car wreck in the middle
of the night and you see a face
underneath a yellow helmet peering
at you, your first words are unlikely
to be: “What’s your reading like?”
January / February 2006
Events
And stay out!
A Bay of Plenty firefighter has local pre-schoolers
laughing all the way to a safer home
By Megan Dromgool
Maketu firefighter Harry Ponga was
one of the first in Bay-Waikato Fire
Region to get early childhood learning
centres on board with the pre-school
programme. In fact even the local
schools identified the programme as
having an important niche with their
students who are not quite ready to
do the more advanced Year 1 & 2
Firewise programme.
Enticed by the bright bold colours
and characters, the schools were
quick to realise that this resource
provided an excellent learning
opportunity in the curriculum.
Harry’s school visits are legendary
and something to be seen.
Children delight in his flamboyant
humour, role playing and musical
talents. He has captured a huge fan
base with his repertoire of songs,
including his version of Get out! Stay
out! and the Laughing Song. Yes, it
does make you laugh.
distributed as a general “give-away”
item.
Pre-school resource kits can be
ordered via your promotions reps in
districts and at region. The children’s
mini take-home booklet is not to be
It should only be used for the Get
out! Stay out! programme as it
supports the learning outcomes
delivered by teachers.
Someone has a beef with the
taxman…
The Fire Service and Police
in Palmerston North were
called out to deal with a
suspicious, er, lunch earlier
this month.
Staff in the city’s Inland Revenue
office were evacuated after a package
was left in the lift.
Bomb disposal experts were called
and determined that – after blowing it
up – the package had been an ice cream
container filled with minced beef.
Whether the beef was minced prior
to bomb disposal actions was
unknown, but police are presumably
on the lookout for a terrorist with a
hungry look in their eyes.
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Once again, firefighters from around the country will put
themselves through inordinate quantities of discomfort in
the name of charity, climbing the
Sky Tower in downtown Auckland.
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Last year saw a record number
of entries (85) from as far north
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Wellington.
With inquiries filtering in, event
organisers are hoping to get over 100
firefighters in 2006.
comprises three sections:
Donned, Donned and
Started and the kneeshaking 10,000 stair
challenge, in which teams
of three tackle the tower 10
times between them in 90
minutes.
The Leukeamia and Blood Foundation
of New Zealand is once again
benefiting from the event, with over
$16,000 raised last time.
The Sky Tower Vertical Challenge
For those doing the tower
just the once, a 200m walk
or jog along Federal Street
takes you to the base of the tower.
Entrants then climb to the 44th floor
where those in the Donned and
Started section have the chance to
change their BA cylinder.
A circumnavigation of
the tower follows before
entrants face another
seven floors to the finish
line on the 51st floor. Since ground
level is on the 4th floor everyone who
takes part can expect to climb 47
floors or 1010 steps.
Whether you are entering to win or
just achieve a personal goal it’s a
challenging day out, but at least you
won’t need directions to find the
starting line.
More information on the event
is available at www.fireup.org.nz
with entries for Firefighters online
at www.poprun.co.nz from early
March.
Pictures: Dean Treml
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January / February 2006
Cover story
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January / February 2006
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Oamaru to bring
back the beef
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The Alliance Pukeuri freezing works fire gave locals
a scare, but one of Oamaru’s biggest employers
expects to reopen soon.
The works employs
900 people and
expects to find jobs
for the majority before the season
finishes, despite losing two processing rooms to a massive fire on
January 8.
More than 80 firefighters from
Dunedin to Timaru and all points
between battled the blaze for most of
a day, using 450 BA cylinders-worth
of air in the process.
Despite starting the massive task of
attacking the fire in a three-story
section of the works complex just
after 9am, firefighters couldn’t
actually see the flames until evening,
such was the difficulty of working
in the smoke and labyrinthine
corridors.
Plastics recyclers
will rebuild
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The recycling plant destroyed in a suspicious
Otaki fire will be rebuilt, saving 35 jobs.
The fire, in the early hours of Monday,
January 23, initially had police
searching for four youths thought to
be responsible.
However, the sighting of them turned
out to be on the wrong day.
Appliances from Levin to Wellington
attended the fire.
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Incidents
Hazmat callout a fair cop
Hastings police station
was closed down for an
afternoon in mid-December
when a suspicious white
powder was found leaking
from a package.
A courier carrying packages of pharmaceuticals
imported from India noticed one was leaking a
white powder.
Postal workers took the package to the local
police station, sparking a call-out for Hastings
firefighters in full level four gear.
A few hours and some very clean office furniture
later and situation was cleared up. The powder
– crushed pills – was not dangerous.
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Incidents
“Don’t forget, we
parked by the fire”
Te Araroa’s Kawakawa Hotel burned to the
ground for the third time in its 100-year
history in January.
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The fire late last
year was more
spectacular than
destructive,
though, with only
cars described as
“wrecks” damaged.
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A big fan
High winds threatened to make a house fire
into a neighbourhood affair in Hastings in
early January.
Firefighters had barely welcomed in the New
Year when this unoccupied house went up on
January 2.
With the wind howling through the city,
firefighters had to scramble to save the next
property downwind from the fire as the walls
were starting to blister and peel from the heat
of the blaze.
The house was severely damaged, causing a
rude shock for the owners, who had to cut
their holiday short to return home.
On a hot day with strong winds the fire was too well involved
for local volunteers – who numbered just six at the time – to
have much chance of saving the historic building.
With help from other East Coast brigades Tikitiki, Hicks Bay,
Ruatoria and Gisborne Rural Fire Force members – as well as
a private fire crew from Whanui Forest and a helicopter with
monsoon bucket from Gisborne – the surrounding buildings
were saved more extensive damage.
The small East Coast settlement had lost its hotel in 1936 and
again in 1956, and New York-based Kiwi Graeme Lindsay
told the Gisborne Herald that, like previous owners, he plans
to rebuild the venture to encourage tourism on the East Coast.
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bush blaze had
a car-yard
owner scurrying
to save vehicles
on his lot.
Third time
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The fire highlighted a lack of volunteers on the East Coast and
brought a call from acting Eastern commander Chris Nicoll
and Gisborne mayor Meng Foon for people to get behind their
local volunteer brigade.
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This was the sight that greeted them on December 1
on SH16, Kumeu.
A car with three people on board collided with a
17-tonne truck on double yellow lines.
Waitemata Yellow Watch and Kumeu volunteers
attended, cutting one passenger from the back
of the car.
A second passenger was found on the grass verge
being helped by passers-by when firefighters arrived.
They were unable to save the 67-year-old driver,
however, whose body had to also be cut from
the car.
Combusti-bulls
The speed of fire was brought to vivid reality for the owner
of a Bulls souvenir shop in December.
In the time it took to get a cup of tea,
the Matariki NZ souvenir shop in the
main street of the central North
Island town was engulfed in flames.
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Pictures: Manawatu Standard
The shop was saved, but most of the
souvenirs were destroyed by fire,
smoke and water damage and very
little was salvage-a-bull.
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Incidents
Gott in Hemel!
The largest fire in peacetime Europe raged for four days in the UK
before firefighters got on top of the beast.
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Incidents
The fire in Hemel Hampstead, northwest of
London, destroyed scores of houses and cars,
injured 43 people and decimated Britain’s
fifth-largest oil depot.
The cause is unknown, but the fire began as
an explosion in one of 20 fuel storage tanks in
the Buncefield depot and quickly gathered
momentum from there.
More than 600 firefighters from around the
UK were brought in to keep the fire under
control, and after the worst of the flames
had burned themselves out controlled
burns continued to prevent the build-up of
explosive gas.
A pall of dense smoke covering
southern England was visible
from space but was not thought
to be particularly harmful to
health, although those in its path
were warned to stay indoors as
it settled to Earth.
Pictures: Getty Images & Jason Power
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Incidents
To some, they’re man’s best friend, but these trucks
gave their drivers a headache…or worse.
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that rubbish!
When a South Auckland rubbish truck
driver noticed smoke coming from the
back of this truck he decided to take the
mountain (of burning refuse) to
Mohammed (the Papatoetoe Fire Station).
The quick-thinking truckie dialed 111 to
alert the station in advance then pulled up
to the front where firefighters spent an hour
and 20 minutes dousing the compacted
rubbish inside.
The truck escaped with nothing more serious
than paint damage.
Picture: Daily Post
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Rotorua’s newest lake
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Hawke’s Bay firefighters had to get down and dirty
after this ute ran off the road in November.
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They weren’t queueing up to swim in Rotorua’s newest
lake – in fact, firefighters were doing their best to keep
the public away after a diesel tanker overturned on a
road near the city.
Incidents
Lesson
learned
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Two lifestyle block owners learned the
hard way that people in rural areas need
to do more to protect their homes from
fire than their city counterparts.
Two large houses in Whitford, on the outskirts of South
Auckland, were destroyed in fires just a day apart in
late January.
While there was nothing left by morning but charred piles
and twisted iron, a home sprinkler system would likely
have saved both houses, Papatoetoe fire safety officer
George Stephens says.
“If you’re going to spend hundreds of thousands of
dollars building properties like these, it makes sense to
invest a few thousand in making sure they will survive a
major fire.”
Pictures: Dean Treml
With the nearest fire station 10 or more
minutes away, it made sense for
these homes to have better fire
protection, he says.
Family flees flames
Blenheim volunteer firefighters’ summer
of sirens continued as a house was badly
damaged in a fire that started in the kitchen.
The early-morning blaze on December 7 sent the family, a
mother and three children, out to the street in blankets
and dressing gowns.
Much of the house was saved, though, as firefighters
prevented the fire from spreading to bedrooms.
Pictures: Marlborough Express
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January / February 2006
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Profile
The Fire Service’s newest director has responsibility for a raft of technology changes, but that
doesn’t mean Russell Wood is the Director of Toys.
Russell was appointed to the position
of Director Technology Development
based at National Headquarters late
last year.
While the title suggests he gets to play
with a lot of hi-tech toys, the role
actually comprises a number of other
responsibilities that Russell is looking
forward to coming to grips with.
Russell will become increasingly
familiar to most as the person in
charge of promoting business
excellence, but there are many other
strings to his bow.
These include further review
and development of the national
resource allocation model, research
and development for the Fire
Service, technology deployment at
the operational level including
automatic vehicle location systems,
protective clothing and uniform.
“This position is all about improving
how our organisation performs. From
best practice resource allocation
through to improved technology on
fire trucks, and everything in between.
Underpinning this work will be our
ongoing approach to organisational
improvement via the business
excellence framework.”
One of his first responsibilities was
to attend a two-day conference in
China on emergency service provision,
with a stop in Hong Kong to check
out their vehicle location technology
in action.
Before taking up the role as Director
of Technology Development, Russell
graduated from the executive fire
officer programme of the National
Fire Academy in the USA.
Russell’s previous Fire Service
position was that of CFO at the
Auckland City East Fire District.
He took up his new position in
November last year and is enjoying
working in Wellington, especially the
easier commute.
Despite having some dry-sounding
responsibilities, including implementing the outcomes of legislative
review, Russell says these are exciting
times.
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Performance driven
Profile
The Canterbury crusader
Plenty of people grumbled about the noise and danger
of irresponsible fireworks last year, but one person has
decided to do something about it.
Timaru man Murray Green started a
petition in December to ban the sale
of fireworks to anyone except licensed
professionals for the purpose of
public displays.
The petition had been going just over
a month when he spoke to Fire &
Rescue, and he said it was going as
well as could be hoped.
“I’ve got 2000 signatures. I’m aiming
for as many as I can get. The more
the better.”
Murray is not aiming for a citizeninitiated referendum – in which
petitions must have the signatures of
at least 10 percent of the voting
population within two months – and
says it’s more about creating awareness of the problem for a law change.
Recent editorials in two largecirculation newspapers show there is
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still a mood for an end to the
status quo.
He says a fire in Gore (later
found to not be caused by
fireworks) got him interested
in the idea of a petition, but it
was an incident closer to home
that pushed him into action.
“There were two cars going
down Otipua Road (where
he lives) shooting fireworks
at each other. I thought, this
could end with somebody
losing their life.
“The damage caused by fireworks
and the [cost of treating] injuries
caused by fireworks, that money
could be better spent.”
Caroline Bay Residents Association
at Guy Fawkes and the sky rockets
that greet his beloved Crusaders onto
the field during Super 12 games.
For all that, he’s not against fireworks
displays, professing an enjoyment of
the pyrotechnics used by the local
“I enjoy fireworks. As long as they’re
under controlled conditions,
they’re fine.”
Light-fingered locals hit firefighters… twice!
Two northland fire stations are up in
arms after thieves helped themselves
to gear collectively worth about
$8000.
The first theft occurred in Onerahi on
December 4, where a uniform kit
including cellphone, boots and jacket
was taken.
Six days later in Kaitaia thieves
smashed down the door of the Kaitaia
Rural Fire Force taking portable
radios, chargers, headlamps and a
stereo, which have been recovered
by police.
“They can’t recharge the
radios, they can’t sell it to
anyone because it’s really
distinctive. The uniform is
not even any use to another
firefighter because it’s all
barcoded.”
He says if the gear is
returned no questions will
be asked.
A 17-year-old Gisborne youth was to
appear in court over the second theft.
The thefts are “nothing
new” according to Allan,
but have raised security
issues at Northland stations,
including leaving gear out
of sight of the public.
Northland operations commander
Allan Kerrisk says the gear is of no
use to whoever has stolen it.
“We can only do so much
as far as security goes, but
we do have a part to play.”
The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine
January / February 2006
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Awards
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Two Picton volunteers were recognised for their
long service last year in a Gold Star function
that looked more like a family reunion.
SFF Raynor Henson and SSO Mark Ivamy both started
their firefighting duties in April, exactly 25 years apart.
Fifty years after Raynor first pulled on a firefighter’s
helmet he told an audience that included many of his own
and Mark’s family how he had worked alongside Mark’s
father Cecil Ivamy.
Fire Service Commission chairperson Dame Margeret
Bazley was also present at the event. The audience was
told that when Raynor started in the volunteer brigade
there were more firefighters than protective gear, meaning
there was a “first in best dressed” approach when the
siren sounded.
The Henson family.
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Safety message spreading like wildfire
Schools in the Bay-Waikato area have taken the Firewise message and run with it.
By Megan Dromgool
A group of Otumoetai College students in Tauranga
successfully completed a fire safety programme run by
Bay-Waikato Fire Region Volunteer Support Officer Neil
Albert. The programme was first introduced into Waihi
College and quickly generated interest with other colleges.
Neil says it was first introduced as an extension to the
secondary school Firewise programme known as Party At
Our Place. “Teachers identified a need to develop it
further so that students work would give them evidence
towards their NCEA standards.”
The programme content focuses on fire science and safety,
but students also gain qualifications and skills in
employment relations, leadership and communications.
Neil says that fire safety is a cross-cultural issue so the
material is relevant to all cultures. This year, Italian
exchange student Beatrice Massazza participated and
despite initial language barriers was awarded distinction
for her leadership skills and high level of achievement in
the programme. Beatrice says she was not aware of any
fire safety education and promotions programmes in her
province in Italy, so was returning home armed with loads
of information to share with her community.
officer Neil Albert,
Volunteer suppor t
Pictured left to right:
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Italian exchange stu
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Issue No. 16
Awards
Firefighter
blazes a trail
Story courtesy of The Mirror, Queenstown
He is one of the longest-serving
firefighters in one of the oldest fire
brigades in New Zealand but Bob
Robertson is no nostalgia buff.
“When you are living here,’’ the 66year-old chief fire officer says of his
hometown Queenstown, “you don’t
really notice all the change much.
It just grows around you and you
just get on with it. It’s the people
who come back who marvel at all
the new things.’’
Bob was recently honoured for his
46 years as a Queenstown firefighter
with the Rotary Club’s Paul Harris
Fellowship Award. Bob says he was
surprised and flattered.
“ The volunteers
are great people.
We’re like one
big family.
The award is an unexpected
highlight in the career of a man who
was talked into becoming a
volunteer in 1959 while working in
a grocery store.
Once he signed up, he never left the
ranks. In 1986, Bob was appointed
chief fire officer.
Bob isn’t letting on about a
retirement date, but it probably
won’t be before 2009, when he
chalks up his golden anniversary
and hosts the United Fire Brigades
The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine
The fact that Queenstown can hold
a conference for 1300 is evidence of
its changing nature.
“The town has changed from a sleepy
hollow,’’ Bob says. “I remember as a
boy playing cricket on Shotover St
and we weren’t interrupted by cars.”
That fact will likely be reflected in
the town’s volunteer station becoming
a composite or career station in the
next ten years, he says.
Among the big fires he remembers
were blazes at the Trans Hotel, the
White Star Hotel and the Coronet
Peak complex. None involved deaths.
“The volunteers are great people,’’
he said. “Very professional. We’re
like one big family.’’
Still, the Queenstown brigade suffers
from the same revolving door as
the rest of the community: people
come and people go. Bob says there
had been no particular problem
recruiting new members, which
largely occurred by word of mouth.
The volunteers now number 37.
“A lot of young people are interested
in the fire brigade,’’ he says.
It takes a minimum of a month’s
training to get a new recruit up and
running on a fire call task. It may
take several months more before
that recruit is ready to play a full
role in fighting fires or rescuing
people from vehicle crashes.
Training wasn’t always such a
sophisticated process.
Picture: The Mirror
The plethora of fire brigade
competitions, held nationally and
overseas, played a big part in Bob’s
enduring love of his volunteer work.
“I was very competitive,’’ he says.
“I didn’t like losing.’’
National Conference and Competition, which will bring 1300
delegates to Queenstown.
“The equipment is so superior
today,’’ he said. “In the early days
we had no communications, no
breathing apparatus. We just went
out and squirted water.’’
January / February 2006
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Awards
Firefighters past and present from right around the country were recognised
in the New Year’s Honours list. In no particular order, here they are:
They’ll be honoured
CFO Terry Houghton
Queen’s Service Medal, Kaitaia
Terry is one of those people who can’t
do enough for the community. A
volunteer firefighter for 47 years, 27
of them as Kaitaia CFO, he has also
been brigade secretary for 28 years
and Northland Chief Fire Officers’
Association chairperson for 10 years.
He has also found time to
serve on the committees
of the local golf and
rugby clubs.
Pictures: Herald on Sunday, Allen Pidwell
He hasn’t let all this
service prevent him
from turning out to
over 6,000 musters,
with an attendance
rate of 94 percent.
DCFO Owen Francis
Spotswood
QSM, Waipukurau
Owen has given Waipukurau in
central Hawke’s Bay 45 years of
dedicated service, starting in 1961 as
a runner. These days he is the deputy
chief and brigade training officer. On
a regional level, he is a key part of the
Eastern promotions group.
Allen Earnest
Pidwell
QSM,
New Plymouth
Forty-three years
after starting with
the Fire Service,
Allen is still
involved, despite
retiring two years ago.
In his role as chief fire officer of
New Plymouth, he modernised the
New Zealand Fire Service’s technical
expertise in petro-chemical risk
management and also worked with
the New Zealand Fire Brigades
Institute Examinations Committee
and the New Zealand Fire Service
Examinations Board.
These days, Allen sticks to organising
the surf riding champs from his
New Plymouth home.
Brian maintains an advisory
role at NHQ on volunteer
issues.
He keeps his volunteerism
in tune by working with
the Matamata Association
Football Club, the Waikato
Soccer Referees Association,
the Rotary Club and the
Matamata Youth Centre
Steering Committee.
VSO David John Hyde
QSM, Greymouth
The West Coast is a safer place for the
40-year efforts of David Hyde, former
Greymouth FSO and now supporting
volunteers on the Coast.
He set up the initial Critical Incident
Stress Management Team on the West
Coast and continues to direct this
service.
QSM, Matamata
He is an honorary life member of the
United Fire Brigades Association of
New Zealand and is past president
and life member of the Fire Brigades
Institute.
A volunteer’s volunteer, Brian is a life
member of the UFBA, having been an
executive member and president.
Matamata CFO since 1993, he is in
his 28th year as a firefighter.
He also represents the Fire Service in
his work with Civil Defence, as well as
being a member of Lions and active
with the Life Education Trust and
Victim Support.
CFO Brian Leslie Hunter
Other award recipients with Fire Service connections:
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Gerald Ernest Robert Rangi
John Duncan Andrew Hercus
QSM, Motueka
Queen’s Service Order, Christchurch
A volunteer firefighter for 50 years, now retired.
John is a current member of the Fire Service Commission.
Leslie Arthur Gilmore
Joseph Hilton Taylor
Member New Zealand Order of Merit, Ross
QSM, Masterton
Les Gilmore was a Ross volunteer firefighter for
27 years, 25 of them as CFO.
Joe Taylor is a member of the local Fire Authority in the
Wairarapa.
Issue No. 16
Obituaries
Firefighters from both islands were remembered for their
contributions to brigade and community.
They’ll be remembered
Phillip Searle
George Gundry
George passed away in November
after 30 years serving the Kerikeri
Volunteer Brigade.
Guido De Menech
One of the founding members of
the Paraparaumu Volunteer Fire
Brigade, Guido kept their fire truck
at his house before there was room
for it at the station.
His casket was given a guard of
honour as it passed the now busy
Kapiti station.
Frank O’Connell
Frank – nicknamed Brains – will be
missed by the Picton volunteers.
Phil Searle, born at Te Kopuru,
Northland, in 1949, bravely fought
what he called “the hardest bloody
battle I’ve ever had to fight” but
succumbed to a terminal illness on
New Year’s Eve.
It was a fitting tribute that one of Te
Kopuru’s most committed firefighters
was carried to his final resting place
by a first response unit surrounded
by his fellow firefighters.
Recently presented with life member,
long service and good conduct
medals, he held many positions in the
Te Kopuru brigade, including as a
firefighter, with the fire police and in
support and administrative roles.
Always striving for improvement, Phil
was involved in the work towards a
new fire station for Te Kopuru as well
as obtaining dress uniforms for
members, rescue cutting equipment, a
defibrillator and a first response unit.
Pictures: Kapiti Observer, the Searle family
The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine
January / February 2006
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Sport
Evening the score
They may have cruised to a series win in the cricket, but the Aussies didn’t have it all their
way during the three one-day internationals that comprised the Chappell-Hadlee Series.
During the innings breaks in the
cricket, teams of firefighters from
New Zealand and Australia contested
their own trans-Tasman series.
On a sweltering Wednesday, two
of the team (Rob and Shaun) were
backing up from the weekend’s
24-hour Ladder Climb in Auckland.
Teams of six completed a relay,
dragging a 90kg dummy, hoisting
equipment over a scissor lift and even
carrying “promo girls” hired by New
Zealand Cricket to sell merchandise
on the day.
That, plus a bit of Aussie gamesmanship, ensured the visitors levelled
the scores in Wellington.
An axe was the baton throughout the
races, which ended with the winning
firefighter extinguishing a brazier.
But the Kiwis came through in
Christchurch, where firefighter/
umpire Gary Baxter was making his
international debut in the cricket, to
take out the series.
The results were a reversal of the
cricket scoreline, with New Zealand
victorious by two races to one.
The New Zealand team comprised
Chris Lind, Mike Stuart, Shaun
Davis-Crowley, Sepp Hribar,
Chris Trudgeon and Rob Holah
from Auckland, Wellington and
Christchurch.
For logistical reasons the visitors –
Philip Cuthbert, Matthew Jones,
Rodney Van Hattum, Benjamin
Schutt, Matthew Rasmussen and Rob
Dean – were all from Melbourne.
After thrashing the Victorians in
the opening race at Eden Park, the
Kiwi team took on something of a
handicap.
SPORTS
COUNCIL
Event Calendar
2006
2006 National Lawn Bowls
Tournament
Waikanae • March 1 & 2, 2006
Contact: George Roberts
Phone/fax 04 904 0241
Email: [email protected]
2006 National 7 A-Side Soccer
Tournament
Rotorua • March 8 – 10, 2006
Contact: Tony Kelly 07 348 3197
Email: [email protected]
Entry forms and contacts for some events are available online at Firenet or fire.org.nz
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Issue No. 16
Sport
A favourite
returns
The National Fire Ser vice Rugby
Tournament will run from September
15 to 17 in sunny Dunedin.
There are three grades: 15-a-side,
10-a-side and Golden Oldies and
organiser s strongly encourage
supporters and non-players to enjoy
the balmy climate of the south with
the teams.
See the sports diary on Firenet for
more information.
Pictures: Lance Lawson
2006 National Squash
Tournament
New Plymouth • March 24 – 26, 2006
Contact: Sam Bennett or Rachael Lind
at NP fire station
National Surfriding champs
New Plymouth • March 26 – 30, 2006
Contact: Allan Pidwell
Entry form online
Email: [email protected]
International Gamefish
Tournament – Russell
Bay of Islands • April 7 & 8, 2006
Contact: Geoff Hindle
Email: [email protected]
To list your sporting event on this space please send details to: [email protected]
The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine
January / February 2006
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All about Scottie
Fire & Rescue will feature one of Scottie’s humorous
takes on firefighting each month, so it’s time you got
to know the man behind the pencil.
SFF Tony Scott from the Auckland Airport brigade has been
writing cartoons professionally for six years, but has been
scribbling his insightful drawings for much longer than that.
“Here at the airport I would just put a gag up on the wall if
something funny happened. Now it’s got to the point where
people expect a cartoon if they make a mistake.”
He says the funniest incidents he has put his pen to were Mangere
brigade flooding one of its trucks and the recent dolphin rescue
that became an episode of Jaws when it turned out the dolphin
was a shark.
Scottie says most of his cartoons go down well, as people can
see the funny side of their own misfortune.
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Issue No. 16
By order of the Fire Service Commission
Notices
pages 28–29
Appointments
pages 30–31
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January / February 2006
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Notices
Notices
Notice No: 63/2006 Qualification Achievement Notification
Date Issued: December 2005
For those staff that have achieved a NZQA national certificate through the New Zealand Fire Service in the
past, and wish them to be noted in the NZFS Gazette, please fax a copy of your NZQA record of learning or a
copy of the NZQA national certificate to Bruce Stubbs, National Moderator & Quality Coordinator (Acting),
Professional Development Unit (Assessment) fax (04) 802-0523
National Certificates & Diploma (NZQA)
Qualification
Graduate
Brigade
DIPLOMA
level 5 Fire/
Rescue
Mike Shaw
Auckland
Jeremy Gibbons
Gary Balment
Bryan Barkla
Sam Bennett
Doug Bennett
Charles Bilby
Dave Blacklock
Mike Bowden
Shane Boyle
Neville Brook
Dave Cairns
Des Chan
Alan Cleator
Athol Conway
Kevin Cowper
Darren Crawford
Mike Dombroski
Warren Flay
Wayne Gray
Kevin Gunn
Peter Harwood
Jason Hill
Shane Howe
Jeremy Hull
Des Irving
Mike Johns
Paul Kale
Nigel Liddicoat
Auckland
Rotorua
Wanganui
New Plymouth
Wanganui
Auckland
Whangarei
Christchurch
Christchurch
Southern
Wellington
Rotorua
PDU
Auckland
PDU
Masterton
Palmerston North
Rotorua
Timaru
Palmerston North
Napier
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Auckland
Auckland
Wellington
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Napier
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Kevin McCombe
Cameron McEwen
Graeme Macfarland
Steve McSweeny
Mike Mealings
Graeme Mills
PJ Maclean
Murray Milne
Justin Murtha
Brendan Nally
Darryn Percy
Joe Pope
Colin Rees
Steve Robinson
Colin Russell
Len Sabin
Duane Shannon
Paul Shepherd
Ian Tanner
Mike Thomson
Trevor Tofts
David Utumapu
Aaron Waterreus
Tony West
Jemal Weston
Roger White
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(Structural &
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Auckland
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Auckland
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Kaiwaka
Kaiwaka
Kaiwaka
Kaiwaka
Kaiwaka
Kaiwaka
Kaiwaka
Henderson
Fire/Rescue
(Vegetation
level 3)
Shane Schrafft
Robert Leslie
Paihia
Kaiwaka
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Education/
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Kevin Gunn
Steve McSweeney
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Palmerston North
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Notice No: 64 Promotional Exams
The New Zealand Fire Service Examinations Board
wishes to advise that it is continuing to run promotional
exams for the 2006 year. The prescription and
regulations and application forms will be issued within
the next week as well as listed up on Firenet under
Examinations Board. The dates for the exams are set
as follows:
13th June 2006– Qualified Firefighter, Senior
Firefighter and Senior Station Officer
21st June 2006– Station Officer: Paper A, Station
Officer: Paper B and Senior Communicator
A CD Rom containing the required reading for these
exams will be available in early March.
The Fire Service Training and Progression System
(TAPS), is now the approved system utilised by
New Zealand Fire Service volunteers for achieving the
required levels of competence, and / or for progressing
within the volunteer rank structure. The national Fire
Service examinations no longer serve any real benefit
to volunteers. As a consequence, volunteer members
of the New Zealand Fire Service will not be eligible to
sit the national examinations set for June 2006.
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Appointments
Appointments
30
Vacancy
Position Filled
Person
Appointed
Proposed
Start Date
Previous Position Held
.
Chief Fire Officer,
Opunake Fire District
Rodney Woods .
Station Officer, Opunake
Volunteer Fire Brigade
.
Deputy Chief Fire Officer,
Akaroa Fire District
Mark Thomson
.
Station Officer, Akaroa
Volunteer Fire Brigade
.
Deputy Chief Fire Officer,
Oakura Fire District
Matt Crabtree
.
Station Officer, Oakura
Volunteer Fire Brigade
126/2005
- 2007
Manager IT Strategy,
National Headquarters
Chris Juriss
9 Feb-06
.
144/2005
Training Officer,
Western Fire Region
Peter Reinhard
9 Jan-06
Senior Firefighter,
Palmerston North Fire
District
145/2005
Station Officer, Auckland City
Central Fire District,
Auckland Fire Region
Alban Osborne .
Senior Firefighter,
Waitakere City Fire District
148/2005
Station Officer, North Shore
Fire District, Auckland Fire Region
Martin Campbell .
Station Officer, Auckland
City East Fire District
148/2005
Station Officer, North Shore
Fire District, Auckland Fire Region
Paul Turner
.
Station Officer, Auckland
City Central Fire District
150/2005
Station Officer, Dunedin
Fire District, Southern Fire Region
Phil Marsh
29 Nov-05
Senior Firefighter,
Dunedin Fire Brigade
151/2005
Station Officer, Dunedin Fire
District, Southern Fire Region
Mark Leonard
29 Nov-05
Senior Firefighter,
Dunedin Fire Brigade
152/2005
Station Officer, Dunedin
Fire District, Southern Fire Region
Brent Foster
28 Nov-05
Senior Firefighter,
Dunedin Fire Brigade
153/2005
- 7001
Manager, Engineering Unit, National
Headquarters (Auckland Based)
Simon Davis
1 Dec-05
Manager, Engineering Unit
(Seconded)
154/2005
Reference Data Administrator,
National Headquarters
Tania McCoard
4 Jan-06
.
166/2005
- 3112
Communicator,
Central Communications Centre
David Barham
14 Jan-06
Communicator,
Southern Communications
Centre
171/2005
- 2036
Levy & Internal Auditor, National Headquarters
Christian
Wengler
9 Jan-06
Revenue Analyst, NHQ
Finance
Vacancy
Position Filled
Person
Appointed
Proposed
Start Date
Previous Position Held
135/2005
Volunteer Support Officer,
Southern Fire Region
Jamie Ramsay
9 Jan-06
.
175/2005
- 2011
Senior Advisor, Leadership &
Organisational Development,
National Headquarters
Gail Aitkenhead TBA
Manager HR Services,
National Headquarters
82/2005
Health & Safety Advisor,
Southern Fire Region
Garry Price
.
.
.
Station Officer,
Bulls Volunteer Fire Brigade
Stave Burton
.
Senior Firefighter,
Bulls Volunteer Fire Brigade
.
Chief Fire Officer,
Kaingaroa Fire District
Serena Grootjans .
Deputy Chief Fire Officer
.
Deputy Chief Fire Officer,
Havelock Fire District
Peter le
Cheminant
.
Firefighter
.
Officer In Charge,
Gisborne Volunteer Brigade
Jeff Pinfold
.
Station Officer,
Gisborne Volunteer Brigade
.
Station Officer,
Gisborne Volunteer Brigade
Wayne Kerr
.
Senior Firefighter,
Gisborne Volunteer Brigade
.
Station Officer, Waitarere Beach
Volunteer Fire Brigade
Stephen Bailey
.
Senior Firefighter, Waitarere
Beach Volunteer Fire Brigade
142/2005
Senior Station Officer, Gisborne
District, Eastern Fire Region
Peter Carroll
5 Mar-06
Fire Safety Officer
157/2005
Pou Takawaenga Maori/Maori Liaison Te Aorangi
Officer, Arapawa & Western Regions Harrington
30 Jan-06
.
160/2005
- 3031B
Communicator (Part-time),
Northern Communications Centre
Deborah Scott
TBA
Business Co-ordinator,
Auckland Training Centre
163/2005
- 3128
Shift Manager, Northern
Communications Centre
Jaron Phillips
16 Jan-06
Senior Communicator,
Northern Communications
Centre
186/2005
- 3006
Principal HR Consultant,
National Headquarters
Michelle Richards 30 Jan-06
.
191/2005
-3173
Communicator, Southern
Communications Centre
Paul Sinclair
9 Jan-06
.
168/2005
Firefighter, Wanganui Fire District,
Western Fire Region
Shane Dudley
.
Firefighter,
Arapawa Fire Region
172/2005
Firefighter, Kawerau Fire District,
Bay/Waikato Fire Region
Michael Smith
.
Senior Firefighter, Manakau
172/2005
Firefighter, Kawerau Fire District,
Bay/Waikato Fire Region
Dion Jenkins
.
Firefighter,
Auckland City East
173/2005
- 2020
Internal Auditor (Secondment),
National Headquarters
Wayne Powell
7 Feb-06
Regional Fire Safety Officer,
Auckland Region
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