GETTING CURIOUS | How Do Firefighters Fight Bushfires? with Fiona Macken

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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CONTENT WARNING: This conversation contains details about scenes that emergency first responders encounter, including car accidents, suicide, house fires, and bushfires. Fiona Macken is a volunteer firefighter with the Country Fire Authority and 3rd Lieutenant of the Diamond Creek Fire Brigade. In 2009, she was deployed during the Black Saturday Bushfires, which are considered Australia’s most devastating fires to date. She’s witnessed the lasting impact these catastrophes have on survivors and firefighters and has dedicated her life’s work to safety education and prevention. She sat down with Jonathan in Melbourne to share why she became a first responder, the team of people supporting firefighters, and how to help with the most recent bushfires in Australia. Follow Country Fire Authority on Instagram and Facebook @cfavic and on Twitter @cfa_updates. Visit www.cfa.vic.gov.au/ to find out more about Fiona and CFA’s work. If you're struggling with issues related to mental health, please visit www.lifeline.org.au/ or suicidepreventionlifeline.org. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Content warning, this conversation contains details about scenes that emergency first responders encounter.
0:06.0	We discuss car accidents, suicide, forest, and bushfires.
0:10.0	If any of these situations are personal to you, please proceed with caution.
0:14.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:17.0	I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:21.0	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:25.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by community-based Bush Fire Management Coordinator
0:29.0	and Lieutenant of the Diamond Creek Fire Brigade with Country Fire Authority,
0:33.0	Fiona Mackin, where I asked,
0:35.0	how does Australia respond to Bush fires?
0:39.8	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Vanes.
0:41.8	I'm so excited for this week's episode so just
0:44.3	to kind of set the stage for everyone we are in Melbourne Australia and we are in
0:49.8	this really very spacious getting ready room at the venue where I'm going to do my stand-up
0:56.3	show tonight in Melbourne. So thank you so much for Fiona Mack and for coming to talk to us. You are the Lieutenant of the Diamond Creek Fire Brigade.
1:07.0	This is a very major title.
1:08.3	You also are a community-based Bush Fire Management Coordinator and you're a volunteer firefighter with the county fire authority.
1:16.4	So basically you are very well-first in being a first responder, a firefighter.
1:22.0	You've like been doing this for a, this is your life, it's your career.
1:27.0	Well it is at the moment, but I've only been in the fire service for 13 years, so I'm still a baby. A baby? Yeah, but 13 years is major. That's a good amount of time.
1:37.2	Oh, maybe to outsiders, but when we've got someone in our brigade who's about to hit 60 years with our brigade.
1:43.0	I'm definitely a newcomer.
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