Timaru firefighters welcomed with applause from Westport residents
“Its part of the job,” McColl said. Senior station officer Martyn Bennett who also volunteered to go to Westport, said when the team drove into town in the fire engine they felt ‘’very welcomed by the residents’’. “The team felt very humbled to the people’s reaction,’’ Bennett said. “They were clapping when we drove into town.’’ Peter Meecham/Stuff A Timaru fire engine pumps water out of underground tunnels which run into the Buller Medical Centre in Westport n Monday after flooding forced a state of emergency in the West Coast. He said the firefighters had “p...
Source: stuff.co.nz
