The exercise was part of their recruit certificate course conducted by New Zealand Fire and Emergency trainers last week. The exercise included lighting fires in a shipping container for the trainees to turn up in their fire appliance and practice putting out a blaze. The firefighters were presented with the certificates following the exercise
Battling a blaze in live drill

About 50 local firefighters took part in a live fire exercise at the Rarotonga Airport area on Saturday morning.
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