Woodend Volunteer Fire Brigade 2.6

The Woodend Volunteer Fire Brigade is located in Woodend, Canterbury, New Zealand and services the town of Woodend and Pegasus Town with response deployments including Sefton, Waikuku, Waikuku Beach, Woodend Beach & Tuahiwi.

Woodend operates as part of Fire & Emergency New Zealand (formerly NZ Fire Service) and has 3 primary response vehicles along with 2 support vehicles. The brigade was founded in 1960 initially as an auxillary brigade to Rangiora, but became its own brigade in 1995 with the establishment of the Woodend Fire District.

Woodend is part of the Canterbury Area (Area 19) of Region 4 under FENZ.

Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Murray Lamb QSM along with Deputy Chief Fire Officer (DCFO) Lew Grant are in charge of the brigade and its volunteers.

The brigade has a long history of serving both the local community and wider Canterbury with notable responses to the Christchurch CBD during the February 2011 Earthquakes and the Port Hills Fires in February 2017 along with many others.