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News<br />
FLAME FILES<br />
Tuesday <strong>September</strong> 6 <strong>2016</strong><br />
Check the heat lamp<br />
in your bathroom<br />
• By Mark Thomas – Fire Risk<br />
Management Officer<br />
NOT EVERYONE will be<br />
aware that the Fire Service are<br />
responding with St John to<br />
serious illness incidents.<br />
Apparently some people have<br />
been quite upset to see a great<br />
big fire truck arrive in their time<br />
of need, possibly thinking their<br />
call has been misunderstood<br />
and the wrong service has arrived.<br />
That’s not the case. Both<br />
services will be sent. Sometimes<br />
that means our crew will arrive<br />
first.<br />
We’re not paramedics but we<br />
are all first-aid trained and there<br />
are times our crews’ input is<br />
utterly invaluable to our ambulance<br />
colleagues.<br />
Every bit of help might just<br />
make the difference.<br />
Twenty-one calls this week<br />
were in this category, one fifth<br />
of all our call-outs.<br />
A bit of a blast from the past<br />
in Halswell this week, where<br />
a three-way light/heat-lamp/<br />
extractor in a bathroom ceiling<br />
caught on fire.<br />
Some years ago this problem<br />
was more prevalent.<br />
New installations require the<br />
fan to automatically operate<br />
when the heat-lamp is turned<br />
on, but previously, and obviously<br />
in the unit in Halswell, the<br />
heat-lamps could be turned on<br />
alone.<br />
They tended to overheat the<br />
surrounding plastic and sometimes<br />
ignite.<br />
If you have one of these, check<br />
it. If both functions don’t operate<br />
together, make sure they are<br />
both on every time you use the<br />
heat-lamp and consider getting<br />
your electrician to make the<br />
alteration.<br />
Might save some tears.<br />
Spring is here.<br />
That’s a reason to feel good.<br />
Keep fire safe as we head<br />
toward another summer.<br />
Call for more crossings in<br />
mall after car hits woman<br />
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce<br />
MORE PEDESTRIAN crossings<br />
are being lobbied for in New<br />
Brighton Mall after an 88-yearold<br />
was hit by a car.<br />
Vera Hewison was crossing the<br />
road outside Paper Plus when<br />
the incident occurred. She was<br />
treated in hospital for hip and<br />
back injuries.<br />
Friend Vanessa Taylor is now<br />
campaigning on Mrs Hewison’s<br />
behalf to get more pedestrian<br />
crossings.<br />
She had a meeting with<br />
Burwood-<strong>Pegasus</strong> Community<br />
Board chairwoman Andrea<br />
Cummings and member Glenn<br />
Livingstone to the issue. It was<br />
agreed that at the board’s next<br />
meeting it would be discussed.<br />
Mrs Hewison, had finished<br />
shopping at the Paper Plus store<br />
and was walking back home<br />
when she was hit.<br />
Mrs Hewison stayed at hospital<br />
overnight and was discharged<br />
the following day, but had to return<br />
a further two times seeking<br />
treatment for injuries to her hip<br />
and back.<br />
Mrs Hewison’s friend Vanessa<br />
Taylor said she was both<br />
RESTING UP: Vera Hewison and her son Denis after she was hit<br />
by a car in New Brighton Mall. <br />
lucky and unlucky at the same<br />
time.<br />
“She was fortunate to only be<br />
hospitalised for a day, then she<br />
PEGASUS POST<br />
was sent home and hospitalised<br />
again, and then sent home and<br />
hospitalised again,” Mrs Taylor<br />
said.<br />
New dog rules start in spring<br />
New rules around dogs, and what their owners<br />
are required to do, are in effect from Thursday<br />
1 <strong>September</strong> <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Major changes to the general rules include:<br />
• All dog owners must carry plastic bags to clean up dog<br />
poo when in public places.<br />
• When dog owners have their dog off-leash in a<br />
public place, they must have it “under effective<br />
control”, which means being aware of where their<br />
dog is and what it is doing, and ensuring it is<br />
responsive to commands and not creating a nuisance.<br />
For full details on the new policy and bylaw, please visit<br />
www.ccc.govt.nz/dogbylaw<br />
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