Teens put emergency skills to test
A dozen Kaikohe teenagers put new skills to the test in a major emergency services exercise at Ngawha Springs on Saturday. The Civil Defence-led exercise was based around a mock plane crash in which the stricken aircraft had clipped a car, trapping and injuring its occupants, before smashing into a field and sparking a scrub fire. One of the plane’s passengers had parachuted to safety but had to be found after landing injured in a creek. The Youth in Emergency Services trainees have spent the past five Saturdays with each of Northland’s emergency services, so the simulation was a chance to put everything they had learnt so far into practice. Services taking part in the Far North’s biggest joint exercise in at least a decade included Civil Defence, Red Cross, Fire Service, Rural Fire, St John Ambulance, Coastguard and police. Photos by <strong>Peter de Graaf</strong>.
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