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Feb 2020
50m 26s

How Do Firefighters Fight Bushfires? wit...

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
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CONTENT WARNING: This conversation contains details about scenes that emergency first responders encounter, including car accidents, suicide, house fires, and bushfires. Fiona Macken is a volunteer firefighter with the Country Fire Authority and 3rd Lieutenant of the Diamond Creek Fire Brigade. In 2009, she was deployed during the Black Saturday Bushfires, ... Show More
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