"The club is honoured to be able host at our first game of the season, members of the emergency service teams and volunteers who worked tirelessly to fight the fires and support the community."

While the Storm's main squad is using the camp as part of its preparation for the regular season, the club's aspiring stars also have an eye to impressing coaches picking the squad for the Auckland Nines short-sided tournament, starting on February 6.

Storm football director Frank Ponissi said the squad for the Nines was taking shape with a number of players pushing their claims.

"The pressure to win is not as great as it is normally on an NRL weekend but once you take the field, whether you are playing Nines or NRL the players are players, they are competitive and they want to win," Ponissi said.

"We are slowly putting together a squad. We've got a skeleton of a side we think we are going to go over with and we think we are going to be a very competitive side."