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Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>20</strong> <strong>20</strong>19<br />
News<br />
Swell keeps lifeboat busy<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
IT HAS been a busy month for<br />
the Sumner Lifeboat Institution<br />
with a call out every few days.<br />
Three people had to be rescued<br />
over the last week due to a 2m<br />
swell on Scarborough beach.<br />
A female swimmer was taken<br />
out to sea by the breakwater rip,<br />
a surfer also lost a board and<br />
was taken<br />
away from the<br />
shore, which<br />
was followed<br />
later that day<br />
by another<br />
swimmer who<br />
had to be rescued<br />
from the<br />
Blair Quane<br />
same rip.<br />
The Sumner<br />
Lifeboat was<br />
also called out last Wednesday<br />
to help a kiteboarder who was<br />
struggling in the estuary<br />
mouth.<br />
Luckily the kiteboarder<br />
managed to make it back to<br />
South Shore before the Sumner<br />
Lifeboat arrived on the scene.<br />
The kiteboarder was assessed<br />
by Sumner surf lifesavers before<br />
being given the all clear.<br />
Sumner Lifeboat coxswain<br />
Blair Quane said it was important<br />
for people to be wary of the<br />
different rips on the beach when<br />
tree trouble?<br />
call us 384 9630<br />
www.fourseasonstreecare.co.nz<br />
KEEPING BUSY: The<br />
Sumner Lifeboat has<br />
averaged a call-out every<br />
few days this month.<br />
the swell is high.<br />
“With a 2m swell coming<br />
into the bay, water has got to go<br />
somewhere so it flows straight<br />
out of the rips, generally the<br />
main rip that it works through is<br />
the breakwater rip which is right<br />
in the corner,” he said.<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
GRASS FIRE<br />
Ten firefighters were called to<br />
a 300 sq m grass fire on a farm<br />
in Little River. The fire started<br />
from short circuit sparks on a<br />
power pole. It took firefighters<br />
two hours to extinguish the<br />
blaze. Little River Volunteer<br />
Fire Brigade retired fire chief<br />
David Irving said nobody<br />
was hurt and only grass and<br />
a few fence posts were<br />
destroyed.<br />
BURST WATER MAIN<br />
Two fire engines were called to<br />
a burst water main in Ngatea<br />
Rd, Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong>, on<br />
Monday morning. Firefighters<br />
spent three hours diverting<br />
water out of the basements of<br />
two homes. On Monday night<br />
further water main ruptures<br />
on Ngatea Rd and Whero Ave<br />
were reported by the Diamond<br />
<strong>Harbour</strong> Volunteer Fire<br />
Brigade.<br />
CLARIFICATION<br />
In last week’s edition of the<br />
<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News it was<br />
reported that consultation<br />
for the Orton Bradley Park<br />
to Charteris <strong>Bay</strong> section of<br />
the Head to Head walkway<br />
closed on <strong>February</strong> 7. This was<br />
incorrect, public consultation<br />
for the project will close on<br />
March 7.<br />
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