Ōmokoroa Volunteer Fire Brigade

Acrash on the State Highway 2, Youngson Road corner at 4.30pm one afternoon caused traffic chaos. Ōmokoroa firefighters helped clear the highway but it was too late to prevent traffic backing up. Fortunately, there were no injuries to either driver. A couple of days later, a car rolled off the road on the “flying mile”. Again no serious injuries were suffered by the occupants.

While First Responders were attending to a lady who had fallen from her bike on the Precious Reserve track on Wednesday 30th September, firefighters responded to a cardiac arrest. The following day, a car rolled on SH2 below the Whakamārama shops at around 1.30pm. The vehicle was removed from the road to a vacant bit of land. Around 9.30pm that same night, the Brigade returned to the scene to extinguish a fire in the car.

A solar system on the roof of a shed in Esdaile Road on 6th October was extinguished with a dry powder extinguisher.

Ōmokoroa First Responders were also busy responding to ten incidents. Two were cardiac arrests. Four to patients having breathing problems, to the patient who had fallen from her bike and to the MVAs. The team was especially busy on the 1st October responding three times.

The following week three calls, three days in succession in the daytime through the working week, had Ōmokoroa Fire Brigade firefighters scrambling during work hours. A call to Acacia Park rest home on the 12th to an accidental alarm activation was followed the next day by a power box fire in Tory Way and the following day the 14th to another accidental alarm activation, this time to Pahoia School.

Ōmokoroa First Responders then had four callouts in a fortnight, two of them to persons who had fallen and injured themselves, one to a patient suffering from chest pains and another to a youngster who had a severely broken arm after a mishap on a trampoline.

There were no calls over Labour Weekend. In fact, there were no fire calls from the 14th until the 23rd October when there was a fuel spill from a vehicle on SH2.

Thank you to all the team for their commitment to the Brigade and their community and many thanks to local employers who allow their staff who volunteer to respond to these callouts.