Hato Hone St John Ambulance Update

The ambulance ANZCO Foods provided after the 2019 mosque shootings has now been operating for more than three years in the Canterbury region.

Since 2020, it’s travelled 192,454km, and attended 5,606 incidents – that’s more than five a day – with 4,966 of these incidents in Ashburton where the ambulance is located. It also had a brief stint in Christchurch, attending 192 incidents in the greater Christchurch area.

After the mosque shootings in 2019, ANZCO employees, customers and suppliers asked the company to identify a community initiative they all could contribute to. Based on the collective response of our emergency services, ANZCO Foods decided to provide an ambulance to St John. The ambulance and all those who work and travel in it were blessed at an official ceremony in August 2020.