Fire and Emergency New Zealand got some lofty practice drills in yesterday that involved one of the giant new ISO log loading cranes at Eastland Port.
The exercise was a simulated recovery of a crane operator from his control cab on the rig 30 metres off the ground.
“We used one of our own staff as a ‘patient’,”senior station officer Jason Higgins said.
“Once we had him out of his control c...
