There was no reticulated water supply in the CBD due to damage so tankers were brought in from surrounding rural stations (Rolleston, Lincoln, Woodend, Rangiora, Kirwee, and some local council rural fire forces), Fire trucks from came from as far away as Dunedin & Oamaru to assist with USAR teams. There were 4 building fires in the CBD the largest being the CTV building. CHCH Air Rescue 2 is the chopper you can see using the monsoon bucket it was filling up from the flooded Avon River.
For those not wanting to look into the distance involved... Dunedin is 4 hours reckless drive in a car south of Christchurch. Lincoln is about 40 min from this site.
Interesting video of the various different appliances going back and fourth, no doubt having to refill with water at nearby water sources such as rivers and sea, and of course the helicopter doing the same.
I’ve never known a video of responding fire engines to make me feel so horrendously sad, knowing what has gone on to call them in and watching all the pedestrians wandering the roads.
Bit of a hard video to watch knowing how many people died in that building that day. I remember I'd just sat down for some lunch when the news came through on the radio. I was horrified to be honest.
Perhaps because in a natural disaster where more than half the city was ruins, and services such as electricity and water were broken, they needed to use all the resources they had?
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Every truck and tanker from throughout the greater Christchurch area was called in aswell as fire appliances from around the south island arrived in the later days
I know ambulance wise, 50-70 ambulances from around the country were sent to christchurch via the Air Force, a hundred or so ambulance officers, Paramedics etc were sent from all over the country and based out at the waddington St John camp. Wellington Free Ambulance also airlifted ambulances and ambulance personnel
@scotsfire lots :-) You'd have all chch appliances, plus surrounding areas, and from outside of chch as well. If I do get a full list i'll let you know
Every emergency vehicle was in use that day. I remember civilian vehicles (especially flatbeds) were being used as make-shift ambulances because the city had run out.
