NZ Fire Service Radio Traffic: Pacific Tsunami Evacuations, 30 Sep 2009

Radio traffic from the Pacific Tsunami threat on the morning of the 30th September.
At the time civil defence had issued a warning to east coast areas of New Zealand that there was a potential Tsunami threat after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Islands of Samoa. The Fire Service and Police responded to evacuate homes and clear onlookers from beaches and shore lines around the Eastern North Island.

The Result
The Threat was reduced late morning on the 30th after no Tsunami eventuated for New Zealand with the biggest wave being recorded in Whangarei, being only 50cm.
Sadly Western Samoa, Samoa and surrounding Islands did not fear as well.

Although the title does say NZ Fire service some audio has come from other channels and agencies but fire audio makes up the majority. I originally wanted to include more police audio but they got preoccupied with a threatening to kill job where AOS were required in the Far North at the same time and that took up the majority of there airtime.

Channels in the Audio
*Northland Fire VHF (linked with Waikato and Bay of Plenty Channels)
*Auckland UHF Fire 1
*Northland Police (shared with Fire Brigades in the Far North)
*CB UHF channels 12 and 16 (civil defence heard transmitting on them)

Links
Earthquake and Tsunami Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Samoa_earthquake

News updates and Donation links
http://www.3news.co.nz/World/SamoaTsunami/tabid/1224/Default.aspx

Frequencies, Call signs and Codes:
http://www.radiowiki.org.nz

Picture of Trucks, Stations and Units mentioned in this video:
http://www.111emergency.co.nz/

Note: Audio quality can vary as parts were recorded in line through the computer and others parts were not.

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[hhhh1997]

is that the fire freq.

[A1nzfan]

@hhhh1997 Yea. The Northland, Waikato And Bay of plenty fire channels which are linked. And also Auckland region fires channel as well. Theres also some quick clips from the northland police channel which fire in the far north share with police.

[NZScanner]

Good Video.