Latest from Emergency Services
Kidnap accused appears in court
A man charged over a violent kidnapping and a daring escape from Auckland’s central police station will face trial.
Head boy rescues girl from flooded river
When Marlborough Boys' College head boy Angus Pauley saw a young girl being swept away by a flooded Blenheim river this morning, he knew what he had to do.
Kayaker capsized during commute
A kayaker who capsized in wild Northland weather last night was embarking on his usual 10-minute commute home from work.
Elderly patients evacuated from rest home
Elderly dementia patients have been evacuated from their Canterbury rest home after it was flooded overnight in a torrential rainstorm.
Dead man may have come from ferry
A body discovered in Wellington Harbour today could have come from an Interisland ferry, police say.
Pair walk away from microlight crash
Two Hokitika men escaped serious injury after a microlight crashed on the Taramakau River yesterday afternoon.
Workers watched man die
Emergency workers have described how they watched signs of life ebb away from an Auckland man trapped inside a wreckage surrounded by live power-lines.
Man buried alive in Matamata trench
A contractor died after a trench he was working in collapsed, burying him, in Matamata.
Farmer was 'seconds from death'
Five seconds are all that stood between David Greer and death, as the farmer struggled for air while trapped underwater in his truck in the Kyeburn River.
Man who lay dead next to trapped wife named
A pensioner who lay dead in a car next to his trapped and injured wife for 15 hours has been named as Alan Henry Skittrup, 94, of Taradale.
Woman trapped next to dead husband
An elderly woman lay trapped and badly injured overnight next to her dead husband after their car left a driveway and rolled up to 30 metres down a steep bank.
Family told of equipment fault by coroner
The daughter of a woman who died during an emergency callout did not know for months of problems with the equipment.
Ambulance abuse on the rise
The 111 emergency number had been dialled - a 2-year-old boy had stopped breathing and was turning blue.
'Sinking' car disappeared into bed of blackberry
Emergency services are responding to a report of a person involved in a car, sinking in a body of water south of Te Puke.
Emergency for St John
The arrival of chief executive Peter Bradley has been balm to the often-troubled souls who work for St John.
Heroic ambulance driver lauded
A heavily pregnant woman was being taken by ambulance to hospital with a heart attack when the driver also suffered a cardiac arrest.
Two dead after 600m fall
Two men have died after a car crashed on a rural road and rolled 600m down a bank near Te Hauke, south of Hastings.
Seven-month-old dies at marina
A 7-month-old Auckland boy on holiday with his family has died after being found in the water at the marina in Whitianga.
Kidnap accused appears in court
An alleged kidnapper who escaped police custody in Auckland has appeared in court this morning handcuffed and flanked by two police officers.