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NEWS<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>March</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Felicity loves brigade spirit<br />
By SHELLEY TOPP<br />
An interest in helping her community<br />
has led volunteer firefighter Felicity<br />
Lang to agroundbreaking role.<br />
The young mother of two is about to<br />
become the Waipara Volunteer Fire<br />
Brigade’s first senior woman firefighter.<br />
She has passed all the senior firefighters’<br />
course requirements and is<br />
now completing aconsolidation period<br />
before being promoted to her new rank<br />
in about two months.<br />
‘‘Growing up in asmall community, I<br />
always thought about giving back and<br />
being part of the community,’’ Felicity<br />
says.<br />
She enjoys having the skills and<br />
knowledge to be able to help people in<br />
the community when it is needed.<br />
Felicity began volunteering as a<br />
firefighter about 12 years ago in Hanmer<br />
Springs, where she grew up, but after 12<br />
months at the Hanmer Springs<br />
Volunteer Fire Brigade she moved to<br />
Waipara to be with her husband, Mike<br />
Lang.<br />
The couple run adairy support and<br />
stud sheep farm, and have family living<br />
in the area.<br />
The farm is also close to Amberley<br />
and, initially, Felicity considered<br />
joining the Amberley Volunteer Fire<br />
Brigade.<br />
‘‘It was quite ahard decision to choose<br />
which brigade to join when Imoved<br />
down here,’’ she says.<br />
She eventually chose the Waipara<br />
brigade because it was closer to the farm<br />
and also had more of asmall community<br />
feel.<br />
‘‘There is areally good bunch of<br />
people in this brigade,’’ Felicity says.<br />
‘‘We all work together as ateam really<br />
well.’’<br />
Felicity also has great support from<br />
her family for the volunteer work she<br />
does.<br />
Her children, Adele, aged 6, and<br />
George, 4, think it is pretty cool that<br />
their mum is afirefighter.<br />
The Waipara brigade has 22<br />
volunteers, including another woman,<br />
Anne Carter.<br />
Chief fire officer Paul Harris says<br />
women now play abig role nationwide in<br />
No elevated lead levels found in water<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
Precautionaryscreening has confirmed<br />
that Waimakariri does not haveelevated<br />
lead levels in its drinkingwater supplies.<br />
Testing was undertakenafterlead<br />
contaminationwas identified in water<br />
supplies in Otago in early February.<br />
The sourceofthe contamination in<br />
Otagoremainsunder investigation.<br />
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Groundbreaking role ... Felicity Lang is about to become the first senior woman firefighter<br />
in the Waipara Volunteer Fire Brigade.<br />
PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP<br />
Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s firefighting<br />
and emergency service. ‘‘They<br />
bring adifferent set of skills,’’ he says.<br />
‘‘Firefighting is avery small part of<br />
To giveresidents confidence in the<br />
qualityofthe Waimakariri District<br />
Council’s supplied water,staff assessed<br />
the council’s supplies, taking 35 samples<br />
from across the district in midFebruary.<br />
The resultsshowed no elevated<br />
amountsoflead or otherconcerning<br />
contaminants.<br />
The riskprofile for council’s supplies is<br />
deemed to be very low because of the low<br />
what we do these days. Women don’t<br />
have the brute strength of male<br />
firefighters but they bring other skills<br />
and together we make agreat team.’’<br />
number of metalpipesand joints across<br />
the district.<br />
But it was thoughtsensible to<br />
undertakesampling to ensure<br />
Waimakariri did nothave the same<br />
problemasOtago.<br />
Thislatesttesting builds on previous<br />
reports highlighting thequalityof<br />
Waimakariri’s drinking water<br />
infrastructure, the councilsays.<br />
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