A man who severed his finger on Saturday was airlifted from a remote farm - an event first-responders of the Ashley Clinton Rural Fire Brigade had been training for earlier that day.
Rural firefighters are called to the aid of a man with a nearly severed finger, and leaders of a squash club a "devastated" after a clubroom fire has forced them to shut the season down. These are just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.
Members of
a rural fire brigade had to quickly put theory into practice on Saturday, when they were called to the aid of a man with a nearly severed finger on a remote farm.
The leaders of a 125-member squash club are "devastated" after a fire destroyed their clubroom, forcing them to close for the season and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage.
A person has suffered minor injuries after an overheated lithium ion battery caused a fire in a Tauranga home on Saturday.
Hundreds of budding Maori entrepreneurs have been inspired to be bolder as some of the country's most successful Maori shared their successes and failures.
