Firefighters keeping busy

LOCAL EMERGENCY service workers have been kept busy with a number of incidents recently, including a car fire at Chinderah on Friday, March 17.

Firefighters were called in to reports of a car fire on Friday morning at a cul-de-sac on the southern end of Chinderah Bay Drive.

seeing people at their most vulnerable.

“We see people at their most vulnerable and I enjoyed being able to help in some way to get them through their most difficult times,” he said.

“I’ll miss the interaction with the staff and the community, and the opportunity to service the community.”

Grant and his wife Ann are planning to return to Kenya in Africa where they travel regularly to undertake medical clinics in remote communities.

“We must recognise how privileged we are in Australia, and in some small way this is our chance to give back,” he said.

“We also have travel plans to go back to Europe and the US and see the sights.

“Beyond that, we’re gearing up for a caravan tour around Australia.

“My advice to others is embrace change and take yourself out of your comfort zone by taking on new challenges.”

They used breathing apparatus while they extinguished the fire, and then contained the runoff from fire from entering the Tweed River and impacting the environment and waterways.

Fire and Rescue Kingscliff were later called to a motor vehicle accident (MVA) on Chinderah Bay Drive near Action Sands, south of Tweed Shores Caravan Park.

An area of oil was cleaned up using sphag sorb absorbent cleaning material.

On Saturday, March 18, Fire and Rescue Kingscliff visited Chinderah Tourist Village for Home Fire Safety Visits and installed 15 new smoke alarms.

The crew have been working their way through Chinderah residential parks in the wake of the floods to help keep local residents safe.

On Sunday, March 19, Fire and Rescue Kingscliff were called out to a vehicle leaking gas at a local service station. They used a line of hose to disperse the gas with water until firefighters could turn off the cut-off switch to the gas. Cudgen Rural Fire Brigade also attended the incident. In between callouts, the Kingscliff crew applied new Bundjalung Nation decals to their truck.