, on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Rural Fire Service volunteer Simon Baguley is in despair.Mr Baguley says he has not been debriefed or offered adequate psychological support by the RFS, and has left the service as a result
The RFS says over 2,000 volunteers have been offered, or have sought, psychological support between October 2019 and March 2020"We haven't been debriefed, we don't even know what happened to us," he said.Mr Baguley has struggled with his mental health in the months after the fire and said he felt neglected by RFS management."I have been dazed and confused — I couldn't take my uniform off for a considerable amount of time afterwards.
Ms Redmond said she fell to her knees and broke down when she laid eyes on the smouldering remains of her home."It was just complete devastation that everything we had worked for, for so long, had literally just gone up in smoke — this was our forever home.RFS volunteers Tony Larkings and Vicki Redmond at the site of their home in Pericoe, NSW."I haven't personally been made aware of any specific mental health support services provided by the RFS," she said.
After a night defending properties on New Year's Eve, Mr Hillyar returned to his own home to find it destroyed.
geoffrey_payne I am volunteer in NSWRFS who has suffered smoke inhalation & stress during January fires. Contacted their Critical Incident Councillors(CIS) asked to speak to a professional councillor & was fobbed off on to unprofessional volunteer. So have put in claim for counselling,waiting!
Wait for it.....6 more months and they will be remembered.
😢
parisasparagus I have always been surprised & struck by how much vital work in Australia is conducted by volunteers. If they're taken for granted, & not supported in their time of need, they WILL stop volunteering, & it'll cost the Country orders of magnitude more to provide essential services.
Yet the Red Cross have profited by & $95 Million which is largely unspent, excepting salary and expenses increases for Red Cross Executives.
That's how our media works, or dare I say how the public works - moving from one catastrophe to the next in the pursuit of bigger ratings.
Industrialized volunteerism at its best
Our RFS is tougher than that....surely.
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