Fire brigade

The Wanaka Volunteer Fire Brigade is reminding the public to ensure fires in outdoor cooking receptacles are extinguished, after a fire was started this week by a pizza oven.

Kaitangata residents gathered to celebrate the Kaitangata Volunteer Fire Brigade's centenary over the weekend.

Four teams of four firefighters turned out for the inaugural Firefighter Chill Factor Challenge at Coronet Peak on Friday, which saw ski and snowboard-clad quartets competing to finish as many sponsored runs as possible in two hours.

When someone in his patch is harmed by fire, Brendan Nally takes it personally.

An otherwise incident-free year in the student area was blighted by a spate of couch fires on Saturday night.

Drivers along Frankton Rd could be forgiven for being confused after seeing firefighters repeatedly set fire to a house yesterday - in a controlled blaze carried out for training purposes.

A stove-top fire in Outram on Saturday was never going to spread far, surrounded, as it was, with a variety of fire appliances and a bevy of fire fighters.

An empty wooden villa was deliberately set alight in Milton yesterday ... 18 times.

Familiarising children with the Queenstown Volunteer Fire Brigade at an open day last Saturday had the added benefit of raising $765 for Canterbury firefighters affected by the earthquakes.

Dunedin firefighters set a house on fire at the weekend.