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Speaker 1: Ever do for Cee Ellen So, Fire and Emergency in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand has launched an investigation into the firefighter in

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Speaker 1: the video with the Prime Minister.

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Speaker 2: Now you'll know what I'm talking about. You've probably seen

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Speaker 2: it already. It's been around since Friday. It's the video

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Speaker 2: of the PM touring the devastation on the East Coast

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Speaker 2: last week and as he's walking to jump back onto

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Speaker 2: a defense false helicopter, he stops to talk to a

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Speaker 2: volunteer firefighter who's wearing the old high visit with the

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Speaker 2: word fire written on the back.

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Speaker 3: Does his political schmoozing. He's having the chat, getting up

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Speaker 3: in the face, clapping the arm, and then he heads

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Speaker 3: off for the chopper and the firefighter turns around, looks

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Speaker 3: at the phone that's filming her and makes a crude

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Speaker 3: gesture which the Hodarchy boys would describe as feeding the birds.

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Speaker 3: Now I saw that on Friday, A smirk, debuzz and

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Speaker 3: that's a bit funny, and I'll shut it down, and

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Speaker 3: then I got on with my life. Fins though, Fire

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Speaker 3: an Emergency do not think it's funny at all. They've

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Speaker 3: completely overreacted to it, and after questions from the Herald,

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Speaker 3: they've decided to launch an investigation into this firefighter. Now,

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Speaker 3: if FINS is open to taking some feed back, I

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Speaker 3: would urge them to drop the investigation here. If there

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Speaker 3: is a bad call, the really bad call isn't the

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Speaker 3: firefighter doing something silly in front of her mates who

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Speaker 3: are filming. It was the person who put that online,

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Speaker 3: which was the properly unwise thing to do in this

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Speaker 3: modern age. And it doesn't seem to be the same person,

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Speaker 3: by the way, given the TikTok account is run by

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Speaker 3: a man and the firefighter as a woman. But even

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Speaker 3: if they were the same person, it's just really not

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Speaker 3: a big deal, is it. Politicians should expect and do

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Speaker 3: expect this kind of reaction if they go around doing

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Speaker 3: their political schmoozing, And if people have a laugh about

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Speaker 3: the PM doing his schmoozing, who cares. It's not threatening

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Speaker 3: or intimidatary, it's just mocking. We have a shortage of

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Speaker 3: volunteer firefighters in this country. We shouldn't be lifting the

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Speaker 3: expectations of volunteers to the same level as what we

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Speaker 3: expect from professional so that the volunteers are dissuaded from

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Speaker 3: giving us their time, which we frankly should be grateful

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Speaker 3: for and there but for the grace of God, etc. Right,

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Speaker 3: because we all do stupid things, we just hope that

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Speaker 3: people around us don't put it on TikTok. I don't

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Speaker 3: want to live in a world where we get investigated

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Speaker 3: over something as silly as this. Hopefully Finns drops this

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Speaker 3: investigation because surely, surely to God it has more important

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