""Zoe and I were actually on shift together, we were talking about the men's calendar and we were like 'why isn't there a woman's one?' So we're just like, 'maybe we should just make one ourselves and how hard could it be?' And then it just went from there," Koch said, adding: "I honestly don't know what happened, I just feel like we had this idea and then bam, all of a sudden we were making it. It was outrageous.""
"'The guys have always had their own calendar, and we thought, why not us too?' says career firefighter and co-organiser Nicole Koch. 'We work hard and take our jobs seriously, so this was a chance to do something fun while raising money for a cause that matters.'"
"Feau said raising money for a breast cancer charity was a 'natural cause for us because we wanted to choose something that was really specific to women'."
The Wāhine Toa Firefighter Calendar 2026 features 13 female career firefighters from nine stations across three cities. The calendar is a national fundraising initiative that supports Breast Cancer Cure, funding research into prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Co-organisers Nicole Koch and Zoe Feau conceived the idea while on shift, motivated by existing men's firefighter calendars and a desire for a women-led version. The project aims to combine professionalism and fun while raising money for a cause relevant to women. The calendar represents the first time New Zealand's female career firefighters have united for a national fundraising campaign.
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