Quote Originally Posted by Bailey View Post
Not just in rural areas are you exposed We know a bloke who has a flat he rents out in Devonport The tenant
managed to set the joint alight one evening You can see the Devonport fire station from the address, but the
firetruck and gloryboys that attended came from Birkenhead ! One can imagine the extra damage incurred
in the time it took for that to happen
It is true that most fires do take hold very quickly and on occasion the `local` fire appliance might be out of area. This scenario you mention would suggest that both of the Devonport appliances and the Takapuna appliance were unavailable. It would be unlikely that the Birkenhead appliance would have responded from their own station but more likely have been on a cover move to Takapuna. That is still a fair travel down to Devonport and would certainly have allowed ANY fire to increase in size.

Anthony