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Teens save drunk cook
Jacob Chandler
A drunk cook was saved by three teenagers who heard the man’s smoke alarm sound at around 3am on Saturday. The man returned home from a night of drinking and decided to cook some sausages in a pan on a stove. He went into another room to sit down and fell asleep
leaving the pan unattended. Richmond chief fire officer, Ralph Lonsdale, says the man was lucky he had smoke alarms that alerted the teenagers to the property. “The people walking past called the emergency services and broke into the house, taking urgent action before the emergency services arrived. The man himself didn’t
hear the smoke alarm going off because he was deep asleep” He says smoke inhalation in that sort of situation was very common. “In that sort of scenario that’s usually what happens. If it was a longer period of time the sausages would of course catch fire and smoke and possibly the whole house would go up. Of course, if the person’s fast
asleep they don’t wake up.” The man was treated at the house by ambulance but wasn’t transported to hospital. Ralph says it goes to show the dangers of drinking and frying, and advises everyone to have smoke alarms installed. He says the incident highlights the need for the fire service’s current “don’t drink and fry” advertising campaign.
Campaign to help families cut food waste Two new initiatives are about to be launched to encourage people to minimise food waste, after a survey showed that families in Nelson and Tasman were throwing out an average of 3.3kg of edible food each week. The survey conducted last year, involving 19 households throughout the region, showed that food makes up a massive 30 per cent of the rubbish placed into kerbside collections that goes into landfills. Twenty-seven per cent of households admitted to being large food wasters, throwing out more than $21 per week of edible food while 38 per cent wasted $8 per week. Tasman District Council utilities network engineer, David Stephenson, says that’s too high, and both the Nelson and Tasman councils
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have been preparing two pilot schemes aimed at encouraging households not to waste food. “We interviewed everyone in the survey and found that no one wanted to waste food but they needed some tools and guidance for minimising that waste. Education is the key, so we are going to hold a series of workshops with parents in kindergartens around the region starting next term. “We’ve also filmed some videos of the chef Michael McMeeken in his Streat Kitchen, which will be released on Youtube in April. They show people how to use all of the food they buy and avoid
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Tasman District Council utilities network engineer David Stephenson with some food that was thrown out in the rubbish at the Richmond transfer station this week. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
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