Emergency Services on Kawau

Those of you who don't live here or have property here, may not realise that we have a very active and well trained team of volunteers who: fight fires, respond to medical emergency's and carry out civil defence tasks.
The volunteer fire force was first set up in 1997 with the guidance and help of the Department of Conservation and it grew and evolved from that point to its present size of 17 fully trained and equipped fire fighters and first response medical team.
The organisation has equipment depots (both fire and medical) at six points around the island plus a fully equipped rapid response vessel set up for fast response to any type of emergency on the island. We have been very fortunate to have been assisted by the Kawau Emergency Response Trust who have raised considerable amounts of money for the purchase of equipment.
Most call outs are medical emergency's and most of these involve visitors to the island. Helicopters are called in when required and I think it fair to say that if you have an accident on Kawau, you are likely to end up in hospital far quicker than you would if the accident occurred on the mainland.
Anybody needing help needs only to call 111 and we will be notified of the situation and what action is required within a very short space of time.