Fire lit in shed at skatepark

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

QUICK work with a hose by Corrections Department staff stopped a deliberately lit fire in a small toolshed in its tracks at the skatepark in Grey Street yesterday afternoon.
Fire and Emergency NZ sent one appliance and had another on standby at around 1.45pm yesterday.
“Someone had set fire to some waste material in a shopping trolley inside the shed,” a senior firefighter said.
“Staff from the nearby Corrections building saw it, and used a garden hose to put the fire out before we got there.
“It was all over in a few minutes.”
The senior firefighter said there was no real damage caused to the shed.