Army’s contingency plan
Political reporter A big rural fire in the South Island could see fire-fighting appliances and 90 servicemen airlifted from the Central North Island to Christchurch at three hours notice. The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, yesterday released details of the Army’s contingency plans to .assist if urgent action was required to deal with another rural fire. The first line of defence would be about 100 Army and 50 Air Force personnel from Burnham, Christchurch
and Wigram. They would be available at short notice if other fire services had to be supplemented. At three hours notice air-portable firefighting. appliances and another 90 military personnel could move from the Golden Fleece exercise area in the central North Island to Christchurch. This force would be airlifted by Cl 30 aircraft, with extra fire-fighting vehicles sent by inter-island ferry if needed. The one-month Golden Fleece exercise started last week.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19890131.2.25
Bibliographic details
Press, 31 January 1989, Page 3
Word Count
147Army’s contingency plan Press, 31 January 1989, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.