St Thomas More Catholic School in Mt Maunganui was evacuated on March 10 after it received a bomb threat. The school was one of 13 schools around New Zealand to receive a bomb threat that day. The calls came between 11.20 am and midday. These came after 27 schools around New Zealand received bomb threat Read more
Last Wednesday part of Christchurch’s St Bede’s College was evacuated after a chemical spill. Two fire engines, a command unit, and the Hazardous Substance Unit were called to the school at 10.35 am on Wednesday, Fire Service communications centre shift manager Lyn Crosson said. “They have some sort of chemical spill in a prep room near Read more
In Wellington, New Zealand, a mother’s eulogy at her 15-year-old daughter’s funeral was interrupted as firefighters evacuated the church owing to fears it was unsafe. Alatauai Leota-Sasa, a netball ace from St Catherine’s College, Kilbirnie, was being farewelled at PIPC Newtown church yesterday when the pastor interrupted to say the building had been declared uninhabitable. Continue reading