{"id":187140,"date":"2022-02-12T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=187140"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T13:00:08","slug":"new-zealand-making-the-country-safe-by-banning-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=187140","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand \u2013 Making the Country Safe by Banning Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cA firefighter at Winton in Southland has tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p><p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand confirmed the case on Saturday and said that all firefighters from the Winton Volunteer Fire brigade are isolating as they have been identified as close contacts of a positive case.<\/p><p class=\"\">They will all be tested and the fire trucks will be out of service until they come out of isolation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"187142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=187142\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0Image-2011.png?fit=664%2C297&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"664,297\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Image-2011\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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Southland firefighter tests positive putting fire trucks out of service \u2013 NZ Herald<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"187143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=187143\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?fit=816%2C581&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"816,581\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0coronavirus-data-explorer-7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?fit=723%2C515&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?resize=723%2C515&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187143\" width=\"723\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?w=816&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?resize=768%2C547&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?resize=112%2C80&amp;ssl=1 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/explorers\/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&amp;time=2020-10-03..latest&amp;facet=none&amp;pickerSort=desc&amp;pickerMetric=total_cases&amp;hideControls=true&amp;Metric=Confirmed+cases&amp;Interval=7-day+rolling+average&amp;Relative+to+Population=false&amp;Color+by+test+positivity=false&amp;country=~NZL\">COVID-19 Data Explorer \u2013 Our World in Data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via<strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> Real Climate Science<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/4dke0pW\">https:\/\/ift.tt\/4dke0pW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February 12, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA firefighter at Winton in Southland has tested positive for Covid-19. Fire and Emergency New Zealand confirmed the case on Saturday and said that all firefighters from the Winton Volunteer Fire brigade are isolating as they have been identified as close contacts of a positive case. They will all be tested and the fire trucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":187143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0coronavirus-data-explorer-7.png?fit=816%2C581&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-MGo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":375018,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375018","url_meta":{"origin":187140,"position":0},"title":"Western Queensland\u2019s Great Deluge: My Thoughts &amp; Commiseration","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/04\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"In March 2025, much of Queensland was lashed, drenched and then drown by torrential rains with downpours of 180 mm in a single day, breaking records for March, swelling rivers and flooding plains. 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