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Collett said a nurse had been notified somehow and was there when firefighters arrived. “Luckily the first responders were there, and we weren’t required to assist. “Our pager system still works if someone can push a manual call point at the fire station. But our fire station is not manned, we are volunteers.” Collett said the outage was “unacceptable” and created a serious issue for emergency services. “They keep talking about us getting the big earthquake and this outage shows us we are not prepared. We have no back up system if it does fail. “People’s lives are at risk.”