FIRE RESCUE NSW HUNTER REPORT
Using skills refined through countless training drills and years of responding to emergency incidents, Newcastle's ladder platform crew safely removed an injured worker from the third storey of a building under construction at Glendale on Tuesday. The 30-year-old man suffered leg injuries in an accident on the work site. He was placed in the basket of the ladder platform appliance and delicately brought back down to the ground. Ambulance crews transported the patient to hospital.
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On Thursday morning, East Maitland and Morpeth firefighters were called to a caravan fire at Tenambit. Crews found the caravan well alight and the fire impinging on an adjacent church. Firefighters immediately trained hose lines on the church to stop the fire taking hold, and extinguished the caravan. Their quick and effective actions saved the church. No persons were present at the scene.
STATION OPEN DAY
Fire stations across Newcastle and the Hunter opened their doors to the public last Saturday. Members of the public were able to look over the fire trucks, witness rescue displays, spray water from fire hoses, chat to firefighters about their work and devour sausages. Kellie Richardson from Merewether, who attended with her three children, said: "The kids loved climbing aboard the fire trucks and spraying water. I never realised how much the firies do, it's certainly not just putting out fires."
