Mid-North youth put to the test
Fifteen teenagers from the Kawakawa-Moerewa area were put to the test on Saturday in a large-scale exercise involving a mock plane crash, finding people lost in the bush, cutting patients out of a car wreck, and dousing a fire. Participants in the Youth in Emergency Services exercise had spent the last six weekends with each of the emergency services, including Red Cross, police, the Fire Service, Rural Fire, and Civil Defence. The aim is to get youth more involved in their communities and encourage them to volunteer. The trainees, all aged 15-18, were delivered to the emergency scene, on the grounds of the Affco meatworks in Moerewa, by helicopter. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
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