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02/28/20 Local Firefighter Tim Tollefson a GLerin studio, he went to Australia to fight the fires from a tanker plane

Garage Logic

Gamut Podcast Network

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4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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02/28 Local Firefighter Tim Tollefson a GLer in studio, he went to Australia to fight the fires from a tanker plane. Johnny Heidt with guitar news, and Reusse in very rare form live from the ballpark in the Fort.

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0:00.0

Garage Logic Pod, no. See what you do?

0:04.0

Fred Alonys A's Hardware and Garden Stores brings you Garage Logic Podcast number

0:08.7

333 Feb 28 2020. It was 57 degrees on this day in 1932 and 26 below in 1962.

0:20.0

And now I got from the mayor's office above the boat house.

0:24.6

On the east shore of Spoon Lake. It's Garage Logic with work-earn production,

0:31.0

Grace Reaver's director of social media, John Hyde in the newsroom, and occasionally

0:37.4

Kenny from the Krabby Coffee shop. Here is your flashlight king, fireworks

0:45.3

commissioner, and keeper of common sense, the only mayor, Joe Sushinai.

0:54.0

In our never ending but occasional series of meeting G-Ellers who are out fighting

0:58.9

the good fight. We are joined by Tim Talison today. Tim, you're originally from

1:03.3

Esco, Minnesota. Yep, Long Tongue Residence in 1968.

1:07.5

Where are you living now? Right there. Oh, in Esco. Okay. Tim was a fire, is a firefighter

1:14.3

who fought the fires in Australia when Tim, December and January. Yes, this is my second trip

1:19.4

down there. I did it in 2014, even for the season. And this year, there were,

1:23.8

yeah, I want to watch you like gas attack. Tim didn't take long. In December, I did two weeks

1:31.0

came home for the holidays and then went back down there for about a 40-day stretch.

1:35.3

How does that happen? How did it come to be the guy from Esco ends up fighting fires in

1:39.6

Australia? Well, that's a long story and I worked for a contractor based out in Washington

1:45.0

State. And we're owned by a company up in Canada who has a contract with the Australians.

1:50.6

Okay. And on occasion, they need a little support on their pilot side. Are you a pilot of a tanker?

1:55.8

I am. Explain that. Explain what that was like. Well, doing what we do, we're a contractor.

2:02.2

When my main work is the US season over here working for the US Forestry. And usually in the

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