Meals on brigade wheels

When the Carterton Fire Brigade approached Hell Pizza for sponsorship, they had no idea they would end up becoming delivery boys.

Firefighter Kerry McGhie said they approached the business to help a team of eight get to the New South Wales Fire Championships this year.

Now they'll be delivering Hell pizzas on Wednesday nights for the rest of the month, between 5.30pm and 7.30pm.

Residents can have pizzas delivered to the station and $2 from each pizza will be donated to the brigade. Or people in urban Carterton can have pizza delivered to their house by the volunteers, who will receive half of the delivery fee.

"There's no other place in Masterton that delivers down here with anything, so it's quite good," Mr McGhie said.

It had been fantastic to have the pizza business come on board, and everybody was excited to get the promotion going, he said.

The brigade needed to raise about $20,000 to get to Australia, and it was getting pretty close to the target.

"It's a great chance for us to compete in their competition and, hopefully, get them to come back our way," Mr McGhie said.

Hell Pizza owner Jason Johns said it was great to be supporting a local organisation.

"I just think it's a good chance to work with the community," Mr Johns said.