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Fire and Emergency Alpha Deployment to Queensland

15/11/2023

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Alpha deployment departed Auckland for Queensland on Monday, 6th November, to support our Australian colleagues battling a large number of vegetation fires across the state. The request for aid from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) came due to ongoing significant bushfire activity across several regions in the southern part of the state.

Since October 21st, QFES have responded to over 1000 vegetation fires and currently have 38 active incidents and 36 bushfires. During this time over 70 houses have been lost and more than 600 damage assessments have been undertaken.

Alpha is made up of four five-person crews and two strike team leaders. The continent includes five firefighters from the Department of Conservation. Alpha Strike team joined a six-person Incident Management Team (IMT) who arrived a day prior.

Since arriving, Alpha made their way to Toowoomba and then on to the town of Warwick which is around 130kms south-west of Brisbane. This location allows them to work on the Wallangarra, Dalveen and Donnybrook fires currently active in the area. Tasks the strike team have undertaken include removing trees that are blocking access and identifying and treating hotspots.

Our firefighters have been busy in South-West Queensland over the last week, but it’s not all flames and hotspots. The strike team took time out to visit Dalveen State School, where the students had had to evacuate when a bushfire came close to their school grounds a few days earlier.

Thank you to all our Alpha crew members putting in the mahi across the ditch and to their whānau and friends back home who provide valuable support. Our IMT team will return to New Zealand on November 16th, and the Bravo Strike Team, will follow a day later on November 17th.
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Fire and Emergency Sends Help to Queensland

8/11/2023

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​On Tuesday we sent a contingent of firefighters to Australia to help fight the wildfires burning across Queensland.
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The Alpha contingent is now based in Warwick, a town in Southeast Queensland, located 130 kms from Brisbane. Alpha contingent is made up of four five-person crews and two strike team leaders; five of the firefighters are from the Department of Conservation. Crew 2 is lead by Phil Muldoon and will be joined by Hamish Lewis, Steven Pyatt, Sidney West and Devon Storey.

These crews join an Incident Management Team made up of six of our people who arrived in Queensland on Sunday, 5 November.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services crews have responded to more than 1000 vegetation fires since late October and there are 37 active wildfires across the state.

Alpha will be replaced by Bravo on 17 November. The selection process is underway for Bravo and efforts are focused on pre-departure arrangements.

 Crew 1: 
Emily Sutton (Crew Leader)
Nick Henderson
Jason Sew-Hoy
Greg Hayne
Isaac Stead

Crew 2:
Phil Muldoon (Crew Leader)
Hamish Lewis
Steven Pyatt
Sidney West
Devon Storey

Crew 3:
Ben Douglas (Crew Leader)
Graeme Appleby
Chris McLeod
Peter Leckie
Amber Hollis
 
Crew 4 – DOC:
Will McBeth (Crew Leader)
John Mytton
Brad Edwards
Richard Shanks
Dave Tapping
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Okere Falls House Fire

8/11/2023

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Emergency services have extinguished a house fire near Ōkere Falls. A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said one house on Otaramarae Rd had earlier been “totally involved” in fire.

Three trucks and two water tankers were called to the fire, measuring 10 metres by 15m, about 9.25am. It took firefighters about an hour and a half to extinguish the house fire, the spokesman said. He said the team was still on the scene and dampening hotspots to make sure it didn’t ignite again.​

Five fire trucks attended the emergency from Okere Falls, Rotorua, Ngongotaha and Lake Ōkāreka brigades, responded to  the call.

A fire investigator has been contacted. All people were accounted for, the spokesman said.
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