7 Jul 2023

FENZ 'Letting its people down' - report on Muriwai firefighter deaths

From Checkpoint, 5:07 pm on 7 July 2023

'Fire and Emergency is letting its people down'. That's the assessment from the firefighters' union following a report showing Fire and Emergency has failed to train its firefighters on identifying landslide risks.

The report follows the death of two volunteer firefighters who died while trying to save people and homes as Cyclone Gabrielle tore through Muriwai.

Emma Stanford reports.