Youth get hands-on rescue experience
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. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
Image 1 of 6: Maddison Cherrington (left), and Raiha Kopa lead the injured and disoriented pilot (acted by Whangarei's Richard Easton) to safety.
