As a result, two volunteer crews from the Silverdale and East Coast Bays brigades were dispatched. The Silverdale station only has career crews based there during the day. Campbell said the first crew arrived at the semi-rural property 18 minutes after receiving the emergency call, and the second pump was on scene in 26 minutes.
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Volunteer crews were first on the scene. “Fire emergency resourcing and staffing is on a such a thin line in that all it took was for one false alarm to tie up the two career trucks and Fire and Emergency [was] relying on volunteers,” he said.
Auckland reporters09:13, May 25 2021
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Police and Fire and Emergency NZ investigators are at the scene of a Coatesville house fire where two people have died.
A father and son are believed to be the victims of a fire that engulfed a sleep-out in Auckland early on Tuesday. Fire engines from the East Coast Bays professional station and the Silverdale volunteer brigade rushed to the home, on Mahoenui Valley Rd in Coatesville, shortly before 6.30am. “Two people have been located deceased inside the property,” police said. The identities and ages of the dead have not been released, but it is understood they were a father and son.
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Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 12:23 pm
There are big changes for North Shore drivers travelling
on State Highway 18 (SH18) from today, as a new eastbound
off-ramp at Paul Matthews Road opened this morning. The
changes are necessary as part of the Northern Corridor
Improvements (NCI) project.
Work took place overnight
to change the road layout and all traffic heading east has
now shifted through a new intersection at Paul Matthews
Road.
The biggest change is that drivers must turn
right at new traffic lights on the off-ramp, to head to
Unsworth Heights, the SH1 motorway at Constellation Drive or
to continue travel to East Coast Bays.