The following 5 photos were taken at a fire just out of Queenstown. This fire burnt for at least 4 days and required 9 helitacks to put it out. The terrain here is very very steep so getting trucks into the areas is impossible.
We also went to the Warbirds over Wanaka air show, one of the best in the world. They also had a few vintage fire trucks on display, but most were still covered up when I was there. I also managed to take 320 photos of airplanes.
They also had a fire crew on duty in case a plane crashed or anything else. I don't think they had any incidents, but they did have a BBQ set up all day on the back of their truck.
During the airshow, they had mock dog fights, and mock airfield attack, aswell as a P-40 Kittyhawk with 6 working 0.5inch Browning Machine guns shooting something. Here is a photo during the air field attack. They did not actually drop bombs, but had explosives set up on the other side of the runway, and a fake submarine they had to destroy. They had the explosives set up in the dry grass paddock and of course started a small grass fire that they put out with fire extinguishers.
and here is a photo of a police car that was parked up at a minor car accident that we passed.
Also while I was there, there was a very bad factory fire that killed one fire fighter and injured others.
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And one last thing, they are very active in fire prevention over there, with lots of TV adds on how you can prevent fires in your home, like, move everything at least 1.5m away from your heaters, and other simple things like that. Also I heard that one shire council sent every house hold a smoke alarm one year and a small fire extinguisher another year. A great idea.
Sam
