This volunteer group in Auckland is celebrating its 90th anniversary today, 22nd June 2023. It was founded as the Auckland Metropolitan Volunteer Fire Police Corps at a meeting held in the old Pitt...
This began as an account about fire alarms in New Zealand. But it soon became a story about the surprising number of New Zealanders who invented fire alarm systems, manufactured them and marketed...
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, where there’s fire there better be water… This is story of Auckland’s first dependable water supply… one that firefighters could rely on to confront the flames...
Controversial, troubled and un-named, (except being called a White Elephant) yet it served Auckland’s waterfront as a fire boat for 30 years… and then went on to Napier to, of all things, help...