A selfless person is one that is concerned more with the needs and wishes of others than with their own self.
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Selfless people are those who are heading to Queensland to help those they have never met fight the devastating fires ravaging parts of their state.
It shows the spirit of cooperation between emergency service agencies with volunteers from the Orana and other regions deploying to Queensland to assist their counterparts.
On Friday morning firefighters from Dubbo as well as Young, Coonamble, Bourke and Brewarrina gathered in Dubbo to fly to the northern state where they will spend the next three days on 12 hour shifts, providing some relief to crews who have been working around the clock already.
It’s a tribute to the firefighting spirit that many of the men and women have given up work, pay, family time and other things they enjoy to go and help out people they don’t know and have never met.
But it’s what our Rural Firefighting service is all about.
Team leader Terry Brill said it ‘was an incredible privilege to look after a bunch of exceptionally skilled and dedicated people’ who were only too pleased to put up their hands to help as the fires continued across the northern state.
And they are always happy to put their hands up to help.
Be it in another state, or at home, our fireies are always there for the community that needs them.
We see this time and time again, from fires that tore through the south coast earlier this year, or the Blue Mountains a few summers ago, to closer to home near Dunedoo and the Sir Ivan Fire.
No matter where it is, these selfless men and women are there to volunteer their time and assist in whatever way they can.
We must remember these volunteers perform these jobs without pay, without personal recognition, and they aren’t looking for it either. Their reasons for giving are varied, but one thing that is clear … they are dedicated to their communities, and to the communities that need help in a time of crisis.
So once again we say thank you, to these men and women who flew to Queensland on Friday and who are here to help us whenever we need it.
We can always be assured, these selfless men and women, our firefighting heroes, will always have our backs.
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