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Firefighters in Australia’s tropics graduate from gruelling training
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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Fighting fires in the tropics comes with challenges unlike anywhere else in the country. In Darwin, a new squad of firefighters has just completed 20 weeks of gruelling training.
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Five long months coming to an end with a bang.
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These 12 recruits are celebrating the culmination of their firefighter training.
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Surreal, incredible. It's been a long 20 weeks but it sure has gone quick, this last part especially.
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A lot of emotions but just trying to keep them in for now until the very end.
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A graduation ceremony at Darwin Fire Station is also a chance to demonstrate what they've learnt
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about operating in challenging tropical conditions.
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Attending car crashes, hazardous material incidents and responding to fires.
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We have 26 locations across the Northern Territory
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and we protect the major corridors leading in and out of the Territory
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providing response capability in urban and peri-urban areas.
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The Fire Service now stands alone from NT Police
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and cooperates with the Rural Firefighting Service.
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For some, becoming a firefighter is a lifelong dream.
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For others, it's a chance to do something different while giving back.
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If I had have even considered firefighting as a career before I did my nursing degree
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I would have jumped straight into this.
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Yeah, it's incredible. Great career choice.
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Getting 12 pretty ordinary people and at the end of it, you know, getting 12 really good firefighters
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we're all a bit proud when they graduate so it's good.
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The new recruits are set to officially begin with the service in August.
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The new recruits show here are deciding where we can feel of
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the service in Beijing.
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Thanks for joining us.
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So, you'll see what I'm seeing here.
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