Saturday, 06 September 2008
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Fuel Costs Hit Rescue Trust
Soaring fuel prices have forced the Taranaki Community Rescue Helicopter Trust to dig deeper into its own pockets. Jet fuel prices ha... 17 July 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Keith Leighton |
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New Zealand River Sweeps Away Teens
Emergency services officials say a rain-swollen river swept away as many as eight teenagers in New Zealand. The missing teens are amo... 15 April 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Associated Press |
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Firefighters Haul Horse Out Of Sink-Hole
Mapua firefighters did some serious weight-training last night - pulling a 550kg horse out of a 1.8m hole. They were called to a prop... 29 March 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Nelson Mail |
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Firefighters Battle To Remove Injured Driver From Car
It took 16 firefighters to help extract a demolition derby driver with suspected spinal injuries from his mangled vehicle on Saturday... 24 March 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Lyn Humphreys |
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Two Dead After Light Plane-Helicopter Mid-Air Collision
A light plane and a helicopter collided in mid air above the northern Wellington suburb of Paraparaumu Sunday morning, causing two pe... 18 February 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Xinhua News Agency - CEIS |
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Palmerston North Fire Service Respond To Truck Accident
A man has escaped with moderate injuries after being trapped upside down in his truck when it crashed into a drain on No 1 Line outsi... 7 February 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Evening Standard |
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Massive Job To Rescue Cavers
More than 40 people were involved in rescuing three overseas climbers from Harwoods Hole near Nelson last night. The difficult missio... 10 January 2008 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Helen Murdoch |
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Ambulance Taken For Joyride
A 20-year-old Nelson scaffolder was three times over the alcohol limit when he took an ambulance for a joyride while medics were insi... 19 December 2007 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Nelson Mail |
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Ambulance Joyride Ends In Arrest
Paramedics returning to an ambulance to take a patient to Nelson Hospital discovered it had been stolen, taken for a joyride and cras... 12 December 2007 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Nelson Mail |
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Two Callouts For Helicopter
A 54-year-old Baton Valley woman was flown to Nelson Hospital in the Summit Rescue Helicopter after falling from her horse on Saturda... 29 October 2007 | Topix - Rescue | Written By Nelson Mail |
