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The Rescue Warriors Live Team has hit the mainland ... and West Coast, they`re coming your way!

The Rescue Warriors will be arriving in Reefton tomorrow (Saturday) and then riding from Reefton through to Kumara, via Greymouth, on Sunday.

These amazing mid-Canterbury blokes are cycling the length of New Zealand for the Westpac Rescue Helicopters. They started in Cape Reinga on 10 February, riding every day since then, covering thousands of kilometres.

If you see them as they ride down the Coast, please give them your support.

To follow their ride, you can track them here: https://mission26.maprogress.com/

The Westpac Rescue Helicopter is flying into Fairlie for a very special landing today - to officially open the Fairlie helipad.

And it`s thanks to this man - Andrew "Buster" Hurst, a Fairlie farmer, former rescue helicopter patient and Westpac Rescue Helicopter Ambassador.

While building a helipad was more complex than Andrew thought (he admits initially thinking he could just go down with a digger, scrape a bit of grass off and pour some concrete), that didn`t put him off.

Andrew rallied his community and raised the $90,000 required to get this helipad built. If you`re in or around Fairlie today, please join Andrew and the rescue helicopter crew at the launch of this wonderful new community asset.

𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗱 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵
𝟭𝟮.𝟭𝟱 - 𝟭.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺
𝟰𝟭 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝘁, 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲

Read about Andrew`s rescue here: https://www.airrescue.co.nz/stories/andrews-story/

📸 Last chance to enter our photo competition! We`re closing submissions at the end of February, and we`d love to see your best snaps of our new rescue helicopter out in the wild. You might have seen it overhead as you`re trail running, on the ground responding to a call, or flying over your favourite scenery.

Submit your photo at the link in our bio.