Ōmokoroa Volunteer Fire Brigade

Since last month’s edition, firefighters from the Ōmokoroa Volunteer Fire Brigade have been busy answering a number of calls, the first on the 5th March to a large shed and accommodation block on fire on State Highway 2. Five fire trucks, a water tanker and water from a large swimming pool extinguished the blaze.

A deck on fire, which was attached to a container on Whakamārama Road, was extinguished a couple of days later. Two calls in Ōmokoroa to alarms sounding resulted in no Brigade action.

Two vegetation fires, one to assist Katikati Brigade in a Wright Road incident the other to Plummer’s Point Road, was the start of a busy weekend. Two patients needed assistance, one from a boat at the boat ramp, the other from Lynley Park where a cyclist on the cycle track came to grief. Campers had a fire at the reserve at the end of Plummer’s Point Road. Also in Plummer’s Point Road, on the 30th March, a large 20 x 30 metre bark pile took a number of hours to extinguish and used six fire trucks and two water tankers.

Around 200 volunteer personnel hours have now been spent at this location in two incidents.

The following day, two cars were involved in a minor accident at Te Puna Stream at about 7pm. Thankfully no one was trapped.

On Wednesday 1st April, there were two calls to rubbish being burned despite no permits being issued - at Munro Rd, Te Puna then Albert Lane, Plummers Point.

Some rain has fallen lately, but permits are still not being issued for fires in the district.

The First Responders have attended seven callouts including a pupil suffering a broken arm from a fall at school, chest pains, a stroke, seizure and injuries from a fall from a bike in Lynley Park.

Please consider others in these extraordinary times with the pandemic and lockdown in full swing. Our Brigade will still respond to your emergencies, but it would really be a bonus if we were not required.