Howick Volunteer Fire Brigade

22/05/2026

Best wishes to the firefighters tackling the SkyTower climb tomorrow. We have every confidence in your abilities and look forward to your achievement. Make us proud. 🔥💪👏💥🎉

22/05/2026

13/05/2026

Thanks again to the community for the donations

12/05/2026

Thanks to the Eastern times and everyone who donated and made it possible for the awesome pizzas and donation last night after training. We all really appreciate your support.

12/05/2026

Last night we got to deliver pizzas to our local firefighters 🚒🍕❤️

Thanks to everyone who followed Eastern Times and shared our post - because of your support, we were also able to donate the remaining proceeds raised back to the station 🙌

These legends are always there for our community, day or night, so it was awesome to give a little back.

Here’s a look at the late-night drop off 👀

10/05/2026

From all of us at Howick Fire Station,
Happy Mother’s Day to the mums of our community ❤️

10/05/2026

Last weekend's call-out was the best kind. Surprised a birthday boy with the engine and his reaction said it all. Happy birthday to a future firefighter in the making! 🚒🎉 Thanks for having us.

01/05/2026

Help us shout our local firefighters lunch 🚒🍕

Follow Eastern Times - every new follower from now until next Friday = $1 towards lunch for our local heroes.

The more followers we get, the bigger the lunch shout 🙌

We’ll post pics next week when we drop it off 👀

Hit follow on Eastern Times & spread the word, the power’s yours ♥️

11/04/2026

Well done to our 4 competitor's that took part in the United Fire Brigades' Association of NZ firefighter competition. I'm sure there are some very sore legs tonight.

11/04/2026

UPDATE Monday 13 April | Mōrena everyone. All of our Civil Defence Centres have now CLOSED. Thank you to all of the council staff, our response teams and volunteers and our community partners who worked together to stand these sites up and take care of our communities 🫶❤️

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UPDATE TO CIVIL DEFENCE CENTRE OPENING HOURS:
Sunday 12 April, 2:40pm

We've had 28 people using our Civil Defence Centres overnight, and we're now in the process of closing down those no longer required.

UPCOMING CLOSURES ON SUNDAY 12 APRIL:
-Helensville War Memorial Hall - closing at 2.00pm
-Shoesmith Hall, Warkworth - closing at 6.30pm

These centres will be on standby to open again should the need arise.

-Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland CBD will be stood down at 8pm, transitioning to close at 8am tomorrow Monday 13 April.

Ostend Hall on Waiheke Island and Wellsford Community Centre will remain open overnight.

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Good afternoon Auckland, a couple of really important things.

1️⃣ We've just issued an emergency mobile alert to the Auckland region. We're taking every opportunity to make sure our communities use this afternoon to prepare for Cyclone Vaianu and have a plan in place for Sunday.

2️⃣ From 9pm tonight (Saturday) five Civil Defence Centres will be open.

If you need to leave your home, can’t get home, or can't shelter with friends or whānau overnight, temporary shelter will be available at our Civil Defence Centres in the wider Auckland region.

- Ostend Hall, Waiheke Island - Belgium Street, Ostend, Waiheke Island
- Wellsford Community Centre, 1 Matheson Road, Wellsford
- Shoesmith Hall, Shoesmith Street and Brown Road, Warkworth
- Helensville War Memorial Hall, 2 Porter Crescent Helensville
- Ellen Melville Centre, 2 Freyberg Place Auckland

🏠These centres will provide shelter, light snacks, and some basic sleeping arrangements.

👕 Please bring warm clothing and essential items like medicines, baby and children’s items and special food you may need.

♿️ All Civil Defence Centres are wheelchair accessible

🐶 A small number of pets can be accommodated (cats must be in cages and dogs on a lead).

Check our website for more detail: https://www.aucklandemergencymanagement.govt.nz/your-local/emergency-relief-centres/

Stay safe everyone 🫶

08/04/2026

A massive thank you to the amazing team at Port of Auckland for the very generous donation to purchase our new forcible entry door. This will be used to help us train forcible entry and safe door entry procedures.