A recent view of the Tawa Fire Station.

The following summarises the role of the Volunteer Fire Brigade in Tawa. This was the wording used at the 2008 Tawa Community Civc Awards, at which the TVFB were the winners of the 'Health & Wellbeing' category:

"The Tawa Volunteer Fire Brigade provides outstanding civic protection to Tawa residents against fire and other natural emergencies. They are a well organised fully voluntary group, limited to 30 in number at any one time, who work hard for the community. Between them, their current members have amassed a total of more than 420 volunteer years in looking after the residents of this community. They not only tend to between 360 to 380 callouts a year, approximately half within Tawa and half in neighbouring areas, but they spend a lot of time proactively - like installing smoke alarms, providing training in schools and regularly turning out at community events and galas. They are a dedicated bunch of people and without them we would be in trouble!"

Other Fire Station pics:     January 2008    March 2005    Earlier pics