Frankton Volunteer Fire Station

27/07/2026

🚨Thank you to Freemasons New Zealand🚨and our local Lake Lodge of Ophir 85.

With their support 15 members from Frankton Volunteer Fire Brigade recently completed a full day PracMed NZ course.

The course run was Pracmed's First Aid for Remote Areas, a highly practical, hands-on course that starts with Pracmed's Stop The Bleed component. This component teaches bleeding control in ways that New Zealand simply has not had access to, including:

• Using wound packing trainers that bleed,

• How to correctly use tourniquets,

• Correct bandaging techniques,

• Indirect pressure points,

• Chest seal use and management of eviscerations,

• Management of hypothermia in trauma.

The team then moved into the management of burns, advanced fracture management, and patient packaging, as well as some basic tools for debriefing, identifying and assisting with mental health presentations associated with critical events.

In summary we do not think you will find a better course or provider out there in New Zealand and can recommend it to any employer or organisation if you are able to support your members to learn these important skills that can be used at any time.

Simon from PracMed NZ provided the following feedback after the course.

'The training was incredibly well received, and we seldom see a team as motivated and proactive in all activities as the team that attended. So much so that i picked up one of the 777 challenge coins to add to my rack of epic outfits I've worked with over the years.

In summary I am absolutely confident the 15 in attendance will only be an asset moving forward and have skills very few of the general population have. The money donated to make this training feasible is likely one of the best that you could make in the community, particularly given it is with a team that volunteers its time, the most precious resource we have to ensure that others may live.'

We are very grateful for the generous support we have received and how it will benefit the communities we serve.

01/06/2026

Thank You, Queenstown Community! ❤️

Last weekend, the Frankton Volunteer Fire Brigade took on the Sky Tower Challenge, climbing 51 floors in full firefighting gear to raise funds for Blood Cancer New Zealand.

Thanks to the incredible support of our community, we raised over $36,000! We were also proud to achieve 3rd place in the 6–9 member team category.

A huge thank you to everyone who donated, shared, encouraged, and supported us along the way. Your generosity will help make a real difference to those affected by blood cancer.

We are proud to be part of such a supportive community. Thank you! 🚒💙

22/05/2026

Big shout out to our Frankton Team members competing in the Sky Tower Stair climb tomorrow.

HUGE effort with fundraising - Thanks for all the support from our community.

Karl, Tania, Shiyee, Craig, Teegan, Matt & Jamie we are all cheering you on. Give it heaps! 💪💪

17/05/2026

Great to support and see so many out supporting a Queenstown local family

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1E7B7ywpJ4/

Over 90 trucks in convoy show support for 54-year-old Junior after he diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer 💔

12/05/2026

Is your chimney clean? 🔥

Some insurance companies may not cover damage from chimney fires if the flue hasn’t been swept in the past 12 months.

Stay fire safe this winter and make sure your chimney is checked and maintained.

For more winter fire safety advice, visit:
https://fireandemergency.nz/at-home/winter-fire-safety/

11/05/2026

A bit of history for the brigade. The first chief fire officer Paul Halsted.

01/05/2026

Rockformation recently held another successful Gigs on the Green concert at the village green in town where our awesome local young Musicians performed and received donations. A great opportunity for our young musicians to show off their talent.

The Frankton Volunteer Fire Brigade would like to acknowledge and thank Rockformation for the kind donation that was shared by us and our friends down the road at St John Queenstown.

https://www.rockformation.co.nz/

15/04/2026

🚨Thank you to Queenstown Airport 🚨

Frankton Volunteer Fire Brigade were some of the lucky recipients of last year's Queenstown Airport (ZQN) Community Fund.

This enabled the Brigade to purchase some new gear bags for our members. The purpose of the gear bags is to enable us to carry easily our Level 1 PPE with us on every call which consists of steel cap boots, overalls, gloves and a rescue helmet.

We elected to go with a NZ made bag from Cactus Outdoor, anyone who knows Cactus will know the quality is second to none and this was particularly important to us as the bags get thrown around a lot. It was also great to support a New Zealand manufacturing business.

Special mention also to 45South Community Foundation who administer the fund on behalf of Queenstown Airport

We are very grateful for the generous support we have received and how it will benefit our members and the communities we serve.