Taree Fire Station celebrates 100 years of service to the local community. Footage by FRNSW.

Transcript

00:00So the centenary of Taree Fire Station is a really important milestone, it's very

00:03significant for the firefighters that are both the current and former

00:07firefighters and all their families. Also a chance to recognise the contribution

00:11that the firefighters of Taree have made to the town and the surrounding areas

00:14for the last hundred years. So it's a pleasure to be able to be here today and

00:18celebrate that and mark the occasion with them. Taree firefighters over a

00:22hundred years have attended a wide range of incidents from small house fires

00:27that have resulted in a loss of life to very significant large-scale events that

00:31have stopped highways, campaign bushfires, floods and a range of chemical spills as

00:36well and so the story of Taree involves a lot of key incidents that relate to the

00:42work that Taree firefighters have done over that time and so it's a combined

00:45history that we share with the fire station and also the wider Taree community.

00:50I've been at Taree Fire Station for 16 years, captain for about seven of those

00:56years and the best part of being part of the team here is working with the

01:01community and running a fire station. Today marks our centenary of fire and

01:11rescue in the community in Taree. To be able to celebrate a hundred years is a

01:16really significant achievement and it's really good that we're taking the time

01:20the day to pause and stop and sell. When you think about how much Taree's changed

01:25and all the things that have happened over the last hundred years, we've been, we, the

01:31Royal Week, because I wasn't here doing all the work, but the firefighters here at Taree

01:36have been involved in so many of the big key events and the key parts of Taree's

01:40history. And so some of the stories in the town's development, the setbacks, the times when we've had...