Waiau Volunteer Fire Brigade

24/09/2026

REMEMBER to put your clocks forward a hour this Sunday morning!

⏰ As daylight saving approaches, we want you to check your smoke alarms

Every second person who dies in a house fire is over 60 🚨

To give yourself and your older family, friends and neighbours the earliest possible warning, you need smoke alarms installed in every bedroom, hallway and living area.

One of the most commonly overlooked places for a smoke alarm is the bedroom. When you’re asleep, you can’t smell smoke, but smoke alarms can and they’ll wake you up if a fire gets started – so you can get out fast.

✅ Test your smoke alarms by pressing the red button
✅ Check they're less than 10 years old
✅ Install alarms in every bedroom, hallway and living area

21/09/2026

Congratulations to Jason and Jonathan on becoming rural fire fighters. 👨‍🚒👨‍🚒

Winter is a great time to park up by the fire and put your feet up, but that’s not what happened for these brigade members, they have been busy going away on courses!

19/09/2026

callout #38 Medical response, 6833 & 681

09/09/2026

Always a great evening, something we look forward to each year!

01/09/2026

Congratulation to Scott Parkinson and Nathan Taylor for gaining their Senior Fire Fighter rank. Always cool to see brigade members gaining these qualifications!! 🧑‍🚒🧑‍🚒

31/08/2026

Monday’s callout…. Vegetation fire reported.

Thankfully it was a controlled burn doing what the land owner wanted.

Even cooler though…. To have members of the Culverden Volunteer Fire Brigade and the Lyford Volunteer Fire Brigade turning up to station and jumping on a truck as well. That’s real team work!! 🧑‍🚒🚒

27/08/2026

Have a thought about this, please post on their link. 😁

Every year for the past 6+ years, we have held community meetings across Canterbury prior to the summer fire season. Usually we approach the communities and advertise our meetings, sometimes with success and sometimes not so successful.

This time though we thought we might try something a little bit different to kick off our preparedness sessions and ask you, the amazing people of Facebook and Instagram, where you think we should come and have a chat? What communities would like us to come educate them on the upcoming fire season and how to keep your properties safe?

We usually combine our sessions with speakers from Civil Defence and Police, to talk about evacuations and animal welfare during fires. Are there any other agencies you would like to hear from at these talks?

We want to hear your thoughts and ideas about how we can help you be fire safe this summer. So let us know below 👇

15/08/2026

A big thanks to St John staff for coming up to Waiau today to lead the reval for our First Responders. 🧑‍🚒🚑. It’s never a bad time to practice our CPR skills during the training session!

04/08/2026

Kia ora team!

With this cold snap we want people to remember the metre from the heater rule, here is some content for your use:

Brrrrr! Many parts of the motu are feeling the cold, which means there are fires and heaters cranking in lots of households today!

So, this is a reminder to keep a one metre clearance around your heater or fireplace. Soft furnishings such as blankets, clothes, beds and couches don’t need to be touching a heat source to catch fire, if they are too close, they will burn!

Hot tip: If you’re unsure, measure it. Remind yourself how big a metre is because ‘she’ll be right’ won’t cut it!

30/07/2026

We really appreciate the opportunity to train with neighbouring brigades, a big thanks to Hanmer!!