Anytime, my friend... us island folk have to stick together!

Aloha Mark, Share it with my blessings, please just make sure to include my copyright info, name and email. Let me know what they thought of it! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Sara (Cricket)

Aloha Mark! Thank you for your kind words on my blog post. Where did you want to share it? Sara :)

Hey Mark, thanks for the add! Hope you have nice weather down under, it's about 32F and snowing here in NYS. More snow on the way also, from what I have been told.

Take care, stay safe.

JS

Good Luck Monte. Hope it gets better soon.

hi mark, thanks for request, glad to be friend, be safe

Always got space for a kiwi in my friends list. i have a few non-firefighter kiwi friends as it is. 2 in Whangarei believe it or not!

Thanks Mark. The way i tend to work my assignments is to wait for an invite from someone at a particular station and work on setting up an assignment from there. I like to arrange staying on station for the duration of my visit in order to maximise the opportunity of catching incidents and training to photograph.
Please feel free to pass around my website details to anyone you think may be interested and I hope to receive a invitation from either yourself or another in NZ, ideally an invitation should be in the form of a letter on headed department paper, just makes things a little more official regards immigration etc.

Thanks and hope to hear from you.

Sean

Mark,

Thankyou for your friends request it is a great pleasure to add a NZ fire fighter to my contacts. NZ is somewhere that I have always wanted to visit to photograph a fire department so if you think something can be set up reagrds this then please let me know and we can see what we can arrange.

Regards

Sean

Good to hear that you're getting support from the big guys now, I've never been keen on that local government thing for Fire Brigades. New South Wales RFS is similar to you I think, but we're a State Govt organisation, works well for us. Not that everyone feels like they get treated well enough, but then, are we ever satisfied?

What sort of support does that Rural Fire support give? And that foam traler! Bloody hell, 27,000 lpm? Our pumper is 3000 lpm, we'd need a Strike Team of pumpers to get anything out of that trailer!

Very wet winter, followed by a very dry aitumn. "a few of the old hands are suggesting that things could be pretty interesting well before our "normal" fire season gets under way" - they'd be thinking along the lines of "lot's of winter rain to get the growth started, lot's of dry and sunny to get the growth going mad and then drying out rapidly"? Let's hope not!

We're hoping for some good rain through the rest of spring. Victoria is in about year ten of drought.

G'day Monty. Things are fine here, very fine, we've just had the driest September for about 150 years, 12mm of rain in Melbourne for the month! And you were close, but I'm CFA - closest CFS is in South Australia. But that's OK, we're friends with them :)

Interesting photos you've posted.The pumpers look very usable. The crew cab looks much larger than the ones we have on our Isuzu pumpers. Are the Mitsubishi fitted with a commercial cab or is it purpose built for the FRS?

stoppping by to see how things are going these days for you? fine I pray. Things here are fine. Finally got to mow and weedeat my yard after all the rain. It took me awhile but it is now done for a few days. Had a missing person search in the rain yesterday afternoon, did not find anyone but the whole thing made no sense at all. be safe and take care.

Wow, nine weeks of rain. we have had about 6 inches in the past week. been so dry the ground eats it up. have a good night . will stop by tomorrow. take care.

things here in texas are good. getting rain we have needed for awhile. grass fires will stop for now. how are things there? fine I hope. stop by and comment anytime. tell family hello from texas and you guys have a great weekend.

thanks for stopping by. be safe out there.

Yes! the truck provide quick response around the years 50's. Out of service about 1982. Greetings from Mexico!

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