Ōmokoroa Volunteer Fire Brigade
Would you like to join this team of first responders? They are very busy and need more volunteers to ease the burden. By the end of April, we had received 75 calls for first responders this year and we are desperate to get more people. If you are an ex-nurse or have a nursing background, you would be ideally suited to help the team. Uniform is provided and full training is given. Come and join our 30 firefighters and first responders in our station. Since last month, the first responders have attended 26 calls. It averages out at once a day, but some days there are no calls, and sometimes there are up to 3 calls a day. Thankfully no cardiac arrests, just a few with chest pains along with other frequently occurring conditions.
If we can build another team, we’ll be able to roster shifts on and off to give everyone some flexibility around being on-call and to let everyone have a break.
Since the last fire report, the brigade has attended a road incident at Munro Road during peak-hour morning traffic on 8th April. A motorbike and car had a collision, and the biker had moderate injuries.
On 16th April, a ute hit a bank on Esdaile Road. One person sustained minor injuries.
There was a minor gas leak at Apata Packhouse & Coolstores on 19th April. This was monitored and there was no damage done.
On the 23rd a car pulled out in front of another at the corner of State Highway 2 and Esdaile Road at 3pm. Luckily no persons were trapped or had serious injuries. The following day, there was a medical call to a dislocated shoulder at a motor camp.
If you would like to become a Brigade member and support our community as a first responder, please call me on 027 459 9478 or at the station on 548 0880.