FAMILY ON THE
FRONTLINE
Noel Kessel spent much of the 2019/20 summer fighting fires with the Cottage Point Brigade. Then just as things were getting back to normal in March, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and Noel’s wife Kate was suddenly on the front line as a registered nurse in a Sydney hospital. Both Noel and Kate share their story below of a hectic and dangerous twelve months.
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