Firefighters in Australia’s tropics graduate from gruelling training

ABC NEWS (Australia)

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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00:00Five long months coming to an end with a bang.

00:07These 12 recruits are celebrating the culmination of their firefighter training.

00:11Surreal, incredible. It's been a long 20 weeks but it sure has gone quick, this last part especially.

00:17A lot of emotions but just trying to keep them in for now until the very end.

00:23A graduation ceremony at Darwin Fire Station is also a chance to demonstrate what they've learnt

00:29about operating in challenging tropical conditions.

00:32Attending car crashes, hazardous material incidents and responding to fires.

00:39We have 26 locations across the Northern Territory

00:42and we protect the major corridors leading in and out of the Territory

00:46providing response capability in urban and peri-urban areas.

00:51The Fire Service now stands alone from NT Police

00:55and cooperates with the Rural Firefighting Service.

00:58For some, becoming a firefighter is a lifelong dream.

01:02For others, it's a chance to do something different while giving back.

01:06If I had have even considered firefighting as a career before I did my nursing degree

01:11I would have jumped straight into this.

01:13Yeah, it's incredible. Great career choice.

01:15Getting 12 pretty ordinary people and at the end of it, you know, getting 12 really good firefighters

01:20we're all a bit proud when they graduate so it's good.

01:23The new recruits are set to officially begin with the service in August.

01:27The new recruits show here are deciding where we can feel of

01:29the service in Beijing.

01:31Thanks for joining us.

01:35So, you'll see what I'm seeing here.

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