Brad gets his very own fire truck

I felt like a special little kid today. Because I am the only recruit going to Brisbane and the only one that needs to learn the Mark 7 fire truck, I had my own tender (that’s what firemen call fire trucks) and my own driver. My job was to point the monitor (the shooty thing on top) at the plane and make it moist.

I got to shoot it heaps. In fact, despite the water restrictions here in Melbourne, I went through about 10,000 litres in a few minutes. But it was all in the name of learning how to save lives so I guess that’s OK.


The rest of the week is exams so it’s study, study, study.