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Pictures: Ashburton Courier 14 Issue No. 32 Incidents Shiver me timbers Fire and timber mix a little too well. This was evidenced by this fire in an Ashburton Timber Yard on July 12. At 5.40am, an early shift worker at the timber yard spotted the fire and made the call. Three appliances were sent out to battle with it. Pretty soon it became clear that reinforcements were needed. Methven, Hinds and Willowby duly obliged as well as Ashburton Rural and Pendarves contributing tankers. Salvation Army workers were on hand to keep the firefighters fed and watered. DCFO Graham Baker told the Ashburton Guardian that they needed a number of tankers to be called in from around the district because of the need for water. When the water supply on the appliances got low, they had to travel back to the corner of Bremners Road and Seafield Road, some distance away, to refill. After six hours, the fire was finally brought under control with a destroyed 20 x 40 metre shed storing processed wood the significant casualty. At present the police are treating the fire as suspicious.
Truck stop Incidents The driver of this truck was lucky to escape unharmed when his tanker carrying thousands of litres of petrol came off the road and rolled. Up to 14,000 litres of the stuff spilt into the ground on State Highway 2, just south of Nuhaka. The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine August 2007 15
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