Recruiting for daytime volunteers for Tawa VFB
That’s right, we want YOU! Yes, we’re recruiting for day time available fire fighters for Tawa Volunteer Fire Brigade!
Are you:
- Available for calls during the day time in the Tawa area? (Stay at home mums/dads/caregivers, local business owners, shift workers, local business staff who have a great employer who will allow them to attend calls, retired etc.)
- Able to work well in a team?
- Have a good level of fitness and able to pass “pre-employment” checks?
- Available to train on Wednesday nights? (The initial recruit course is a 7 day wage reimbursed course.)
- Able to attend call outs that vary from fires to motor vehicle crashes to medical events and more and to help with fire safety education?
- Keen to learn new skills and to contribute towards our community?
- Live within 4 minutes’ drive from the Tawa Fire Station and have your own transport?
Then we want you! Age, gender, race etc. are not an issue! If you think you fit the bill please send us a PM here with your name, DOB, address and contact e-mail and phone numbers and we’ll be in touch!
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⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62% Summer
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36.5% Winter
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1.5% Other - I'll share below
Worst Xmas ever?
There's a a lot of planning that goes into Christmas day and sometimes things just don't go to plan. But it can be a good thing - a family mishap or hilarious memory that you can laugh about in Christmases to come.
Whether you burnt the dinner or were stranded at an airport...
Share your Christmas mishaps below!
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