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Training firefighters

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This 1963 newsreel shows firefighters training at the Fire Service Training School in Island Bay, Wellington. The school, which opened in 1958, and another operating in Auckland from 1967, were superseded by the National Training Centre set up in Rotorua in 2006.

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Reference: Firemen's School. National Film Unit, 1963

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Nancy Swarbrick, Fires and fire services – Towards a national fire service, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/21876/training-firefighters (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 10 March 2010.