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Fire service St John expand as district booms
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Plans for new base in Rolleston BY TOM DOUDNEY
A new emergency services hub is on the cards for Rolleston as the area’s booming population increases the demand on St John and the Fire Service. St John is in talks with the district council over a tenancy agreement for a new base on Kidman St and the Rolleston Volunteer Fire Brigade is keen to co-locate on the site. John Sunckell, chairman of the St John Ellesmere Area Committee which oversees the Rolleston area, said population growth had been phenomenal and the need for the new base was “definitely there.” During 2013 there were a total of 989 incidents with responses in
the Rolleston response area, an increase of 19.2 per cent compared to the 830 in 2012. The figure for 2011 was 779. Mr Sunckell said the Kidman St site “gives us really good access to the residential and urban parts of town including the main shopping centre and equally, really good access back out to Main South Rd and across to the western part of the area. So it’s sort of a once in a lifetime opportunity.” St John hoped to be fully relocated to the site “well and truly before Christmas, everything going well.” Mr Sunckell said the site was currently a mixture of bare land and a house that was used by Fletchers, for its earthquake recovery work. • Turn to page 3
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