Since fighting fires around his hometown of Canungra on Queensland's Gold Coast hinterland last month, volunteer rural firefighter Damon Rockliff has had little time to rest.The Boonah Showgrounds is a temporary staging area for crews, complete with tents and food
About 100 crew are needed to facilitate the Boonah centre, with about 100 firefighters out in the fieldMr Rockliff, who has 20 years' experience as a rural firefighter, said he had never seen anything like the spring of 2019. "We are all tired — it is just one of those things, but just got to help because it is everywhere and it is only going to get worse," he said.
He is a small business owner, but dropped everything to battle blazes around the Gold Coast hinterland, and more recently around Boonah in the Scenic Rim."We do it for the community — we are all pretty tight out here and we like it — we have a good group of friends so when it does happen, we all get together and help," Mr Rockliff said.
"A lot of people do not realise we [rural firefighters] are 100 per cent volunteer-based, that we do not get paid, we give up our day jobs for it — that is just the way it is."
We fought for our house for 5 hours ...because we were not permitted to burn off 15 years of fuel build up around us in the forest... Greenie religion...we did burn off our place in the off season now we still have it..but all the forest around us is gone wild life and all. gone
Interpol busted a massive child trafficking ring based out of australia recently, are you guys involved in that one too?
Where’s the Epstein coverage?
Really? This is the headline you use for people putting their lives in danger- very poor ABC
Your headline makes it sound like a review of a 4 star hotel. These people simply need food and a comfortable place to sleep to recover to go back out again. Having AC is hardly a luxury.
But but it’s climate change doomers!!
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