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Speaker 1: Big clean up happening in Munga Fire this after what

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Speaker 1: they think was a tornado ripped through Sunday morning about

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Speaker 1: three o'clock. Two people seriously injured, around fifty homes and

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Speaker 1: buildings damaged. We party Henwood's Fire and Emergency Northern District Manager,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. Any damage overnight, any rain to

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Speaker 1: existing damage?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of showers overnight, but I think I

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Speaker 2: don't think it worsens anything much, you know, for the

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Speaker 2: current state of some of those properties.

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Speaker 1: How did that woman get sucked out of her home?

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Speaker 1: It was an incredible story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I wasn't there at the time, but

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Speaker 2: obviously our crews when they arrived there, you know, she

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Speaker 2: had some considerable injuries. So I don't disagree with what happened.

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Speaker 2: And if you looked at their house, you know it's

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Speaker 2: been totally devastated. So if it was a tornado, then

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm not disagreeing. But yeah, there was carnage

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Speaker 2: on her property and the neighboring property.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys expect the tornado? Were you expecting bad weather?

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Speaker 1: I've had a look at the Met Service reports and

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Speaker 1: there was nothing mentioning you know, severe thunderstorms from what

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Speaker 1: I could see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean we will always monitor the weather,

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Speaker 2: and I suppose that's the one fickle thing about the thunderstorms.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can never determine the location or the

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Speaker 2: in intensity. So yeah, it was out of the ordinary

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Speaker 2: and definitely cooked as part of the community.

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Speaker 1: Did you have enough staff.

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Speaker 2: On So initially when we started getting the call, so

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Speaker 2: you know, shortly after three o'clock in the morning, it

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Speaker 2: wasn't how many staff. It was getting staff to the

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Speaker 2: to the residents. So for an example, mung A fire

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Speaker 2: station got the first call. The chief of us was

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Speaker 2: the think they're waiting for his people are tune up

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Speaker 2: and they couldn't get there. And so our common sen

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Speaker 2: realized that straightaway he started sending appliances from all other

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Speaker 2: locations from around the district to help respond so they

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Speaker 2: could actually gain access. So from Wipe Kaiwaker Mangitor to

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Speaker 2: walk work in Rasford to try and to try different

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Speaker 2: alternate routes and so yeah, it was it took a

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Speaker 2: long time to actually get to get anywhere. For some

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Speaker 2: of the residents. Fiveflight said to get out of their

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Speaker 2: trucks and walk just because of the you know, the

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Speaker 2: damage that was left by the wake of the tornado

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Speaker 2: going through, trees down and power lines all over the place.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of power lines, what do you know about people

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Speaker 1: cutting the cutting the power lines on their own driveways?

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Speaker 2: Look what we I had to drive yourself, I mean

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Speaker 2: I didn't. That wasn't obvious to me. You know North

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Speaker 2: Power where there were going in the afternoon. So I'm

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Speaker 2: not one hundred percent sure, but there was, you know,

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Speaker 2: it was all I can tell you. There were power

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Speaker 2: lines either with.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like we party, thank you for that, we party

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Speaker 1: hereward fire an emergency North London. For more from the

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