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Our Heroes - Stephen Chappell

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Stephen Chappell

Busy with The Burns Team

May 26, 2010

Just a quick blog to say I have been really busy preparing for a major group back burn which will be happening around June. There are six trucks and the crew I work with is awesome. I am really liking working with The Burns Team and I don't really want it to finish! »

Extreme Weather Heroes Weekend

February 02, 2010

What a weekend I had - meet up with all the extreme weather heroes and new ones it was great, we had the heaps of guess speakers it was awesome to hear what they all had to say about what is happeneing with climate change etc. »

Rockhampton Deployment

January 05, 2010

Well this trip to Rockhampton was a bit different and a real eye opener for me and my dad yes my dad he is also in my brigade with me. I have never seen fires like this in my life when we arrived in rocky all you could see and smell was smoke everywhere we grabbed our bags and got on the bus to head for the ICC where we were going to be told where we were staying.»

New kid on the block

New kid on the block

December 08, 2009

Hi my name is Stephen, I’m 22 years old and live on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Since I was little, I have always wanted to be a firefighter, so when I turned 16 I joined the Queensland Rural Fire Service. Six years on and I am still in the Service and enjoy it just as much now as when I joined. I am extremely proud to be a Rural Firefighter and I am also proud to be one of the new Extreme Weather Heroes. I am looking forward to being part of a team that encourages volunteering and promotes the importance of taking care of our planet. »

Townsvile Deployment

Townsvile Deployment

October 22, 2009

Well all 16 of us left on the Thursday from Brisbane airport which was fun. If we didn’t know each other before then – we certainly did afterwards. When we arrived at Townsville airport we were greeted then we went back to the hotel and we had a small talk of what had been happening before we had arrived. Then the next day we went to the fire station where we were getting our trucks and ourselves organized. »

Kingaroy Deployment

October 14, 2009

To start off - my time away at Kingaroy was great. I worked with such a great team while I was away. To begin with we were there to take over from the tired local crews. We were waiting for the fire to come to us as it wasn’t in an area we could access. But in the end the 1st officer and I ended up stopping a fire the size of half a basket ball field with a gum tree branch. We were impressed. Then we mopped up for the rest off the time and ended coming home late that night. »

Stephen Chappell

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