Jo-Anna Dalby has withdrawn her resignation while a review of the brigade is carried out. Photo / Supplied
A volunteer firefighter and calendar pin-up girl who left her job at the Feilding Volunteer Brigade citing a "bullying culture" has withdrawn her resignation.
May pin-up girl for the 2013 Female Firefighter Calendar, Jo-Anna Dalby, 22, resigned from her position last week after 3 years of service because of alleged
verbal attacks, gossiping and an incident in which someone tried to run her over.
She has since withdrawn her resignation and taken three months' leave in the hope an external review of the brigade will remedy issues. "I have a bit of hope that the Fire Service will do the right thing and sort some of this stuff out," she said.
Law firm DLA Phillips Fox had been commissioned by the New Zealand Fire Service to probe the brigade's finance and governance.
It was recently ordered to repay $8730 in lottery grants to the Internal Affairs Minister's discretionary fund, after an application for funding failed to disclose other financial sources.
