Busy time for fire brigade
After three weeks of inactivity, the Ohakune Volunteer Fire Brigade were thrown into a frenzy with five callouts in the space of 17 hours last Thursday. Members of the Brigade crawled out of their beds at 12.35am to attend a scrub fire along the Dreadnought Road, the cause of which was unknown. The second alarm sounded shortly after the first but turned out to be a technical fault in the alarm system. Firemen raced to the scene of the third incident at 1 1.25am when a wiring fault caused a fire on a header harvester belonging to Ohakune farmer Neil Whale. Both appliances and the water tanker sped to the property at Makaranui
where the harvester was cropping straw. The fire was under control by the time the brigade arrived but there was extensive damage to the harvester. At 4.25pm the brigade attended a two-car collision
in Ohakune (see Police File on back page.) The eventful day finished with a call out at 5.37pm, when firemen attended to a Ford truck that was smoking profusely while driving around Ohakune.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 43, 14 April 1987, Page 1
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