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Speaker 1: Mix one O four point nine dot com DOTU for

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Speaker 1: all the latest news and information. Now three sixty with

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Speaker 1: Katie Wolf. Everyone is listening Mix one O four point

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Speaker 2: Joining us in the studio though, is our old mate

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Speaker 2: Jerry Wood.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 2: Good to have you in here. Jerry.

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Speaker 3: I'm very well, thank you.

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Speaker 2: It's good you're looking relaxed.

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Speaker 4: Oh yep, complenty of work, but I don't have to

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Speaker 4: sort of do it right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Live in the dream, mate, live in the dream.

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Speaker 3: And you worked hard to be able to retire.

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Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that, so you deserve to be

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Speaker 2: living the dreape.

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Speaker 3: I still take an interest in things that I know.

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Speaker 1: You do now, Jerry.

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Speaker 2: One thing that you have taken an interest in, and

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Speaker 2: I think that this is something rightly so that you have,

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Speaker 2: is that it seems as though, well, my understanding is

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Speaker 2: that bushfires, bushfire trucks have names on them for the

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Speaker 2: areas that they that they're from. Now those names have

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Speaker 2: been removed, Is that right? What's happened?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's my understanding.

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Speaker 4: I've been in touch with a couple of people in

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Speaker 4: with the volunteer Fibrigade in the Northern Territory Fire Service.

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Speaker 4: And as you would know normally if you go out

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Speaker 4: our way, there's the bush Fires Council fire trucks, they've

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Speaker 4: got their name on the side. But the Northern Territory

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Speaker 4: Fire Service, which does the more closer into Darwen areas,

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Speaker 4: they've all got their names on and so you've got Kilpena, Virginia,

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Speaker 4: Beees Creek, Humpty Do Howard Springs, and there's other places

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Speaker 4: in the territory that have their name on it. And

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Speaker 4: that's really important because these people that the volunteers on

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Speaker 4: those fire units are all locals and we very much

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Speaker 4: appreciate the work they do. So when they're out either

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Speaker 4: back burning or controlling a fire or an accident, you

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Speaker 4: see their names and you know that our local people

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Speaker 4: are out there volunteering their time and you appreciate that

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Speaker 4: in your way to them sometimes. In fact, I had

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Speaker 4: a friend ring me today from Central Victoria. He's on

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Speaker 4: the local fire brigade there, and he said, ah, you

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Speaker 4: can't take the names off those truck trucks, especially in

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Speaker 4: their cases where they had big fires. There'd be people

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Speaker 4: coming in from interstate and they know that they've come

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Speaker 4: in from interstate and they'd appreciate that there are people

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Speaker 4: coming in to help them in that area. And it's

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Speaker 4: the same in the rural area. So how do you

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Speaker 4: do come down and help the Howard Springs and Virginia

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Speaker 4: and bees Creek and all those people. They get together

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Speaker 4: and fight fires and we appreciate what they do. Now

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Speaker 4: to take the names off for what, I don't have

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Speaker 4: no idea what the reason thening is for.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the name doesn't cause an accident.

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Speaker 2: So have they've taken the names off all of the trucks.

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Speaker 4: And they're going to replace it with something now, I

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Speaker 4: don't know where they're going to have those get the

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Speaker 4: yellow signs with the initials on the side, you know,

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Speaker 4: HS one, seven three or something.

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Speaker 3: But the name is important.

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Speaker 4: The name is very much part of the rural area,

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Speaker 4: and it is important that we also recognize our volunteers,

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Speaker 4: and that's one way to recognize them. So I have

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Speaker 4: no idea why the bureaucracy has told them after twenty

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Speaker 4: or so many it's probably long on that for how

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Speaker 4: it's been probably thirty years now at least I went

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Speaker 4: to their anniversary not so long ago. They've always had

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Speaker 4: their names on the side of the truck and.

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Speaker 2: So Jerry, are they names of people and names of

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Speaker 2: locations or.

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Speaker 4: What are Howard Springs Volunteer Fibrogade Kilpinia Volunteer fi Progade

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Speaker 4: hump to do fibrigate So we know they're the volunteers

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Speaker 4: and that's not we haven't got anything against the regulars

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Speaker 4: and they came out and fight fires too. But you know,

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Speaker 4: it's good to know that we've got people out there helping,

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Speaker 4: helping fellow rural people look after property and and I

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Speaker 4: think that's really important that they're recognized by having their

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Speaker 4: name on the vehicle.

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Speaker 2: So what do you reckon the government needs to do here?

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Speaker 4: I think the minister just tells whoever made the decision.

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Speaker 4: I don't know whether why that person made the decision.

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Speaker 4: I think we've got more important things to do besides

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Speaker 4: moving signs off trucks. Were the most important thing at

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Speaker 4: the moment is to go back burning, to make sure

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Speaker 4: fires don't get out of control, to educate people about

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Speaker 4: you know, when you can burn and when you can't burn.

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Speaker 4: They're the important things, not whether you take a sign

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Speaker 4: off the side track.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got a message here from Zach and it says,

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Speaker 2: as a previous cool Pinia volunteer, the name on the vehicle.

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Speaker 2: The name on the vehicle lets people know they're close

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Speaker 2: to them and get other volunteers involved when they know

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Speaker 2: that that's the vehicle in their area.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: So, look, this is something that I've no doubt a

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Speaker 2: lot of volunteers are going to feel pretty passionately about.

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Speaker 3: I would suggest, I know they do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't even know why, and they haven't been

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Speaker 4: involved in the decision making process. Yeah, and I think

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Speaker 4: if they had to make a decision, they'd say leave them.

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Speaker 4: And I'm asking the minister, Minister Laula, I think I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure who's in charge of the fire brigade, but

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Speaker 4: whoever is, I think just should step in and say, hey,

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Speaker 4: leave them alone.

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Speaker 1: Jerry.

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Speaker 2: We haven't got a huge amount of time, but I

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Speaker 2: do also want to ask you, because you are well

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Speaker 2: when we think of the rural area, we certainly think

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Speaker 2: of you. Jerry would and there has been some concerns raised.

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Speaker 2: Kezi Epiric joined us on the show last Friday about

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Speaker 2: these concerns about Palmerston Council. You know, their area being

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Speaker 2: becoming larg and incorporating some of those areas which are

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Speaker 2: previously rural.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's two issues there.

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Speaker 4: One is whether Parmesan expands its boundary, of course, the

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Speaker 4: other areas whether parts of Litchfield turn into being a suburb.

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Speaker 3: And the previous government tried to do the same thing.

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Speaker 4: This government has just gone along moreris was the same

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Speaker 4: idea as the previous government had.

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Speaker 3: It has been opposed.

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Speaker 4: But you sometimes think you're talking to deaf people because

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Speaker 4: no matter how much rural people say, this is what

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Speaker 4: we'd like, the planners and sometimes the government just ignores

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Speaker 4: that totally. So instead of sitting down as they had

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Speaker 4: some years ago and putting up a design for Woodell,

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Speaker 4: which is the planned city, they want to sort of

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Speaker 4: the shortcut is infill and densification, the other planning words.

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Speaker 3: They love those words.

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Speaker 4: What it really means is we're not interested in expanding

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Speaker 4: rural lifestyle, which they could do in this case. So

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Speaker 4: holtz Kwandi area is mostly his own rural at the

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Speaker 4: present time, and so they could turn that into what's

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Speaker 4: similar to subdivisions like in Howard of A Park, Whitewood Park,

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Speaker 4: parts of Gerrowen which.

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Speaker 3: Have town water.

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Speaker 4: Because we know there's the moratory mon Boars, but still

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Speaker 4: have one hect down and two hectar block so you

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Speaker 4: can have that alternative lifestyle to suburban. So the suburban

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Speaker 4: has been planned for with Dell. The rural area has

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Speaker 4: been planned basically, not altogether for rural development. And what

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Speaker 4: we've got is a government who just ignores all that.

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Speaker 4: We know there will be some development around the hospital,

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Speaker 4: but close in. And I went to a meeting Esay,

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Speaker 4: a new local member, Jared Mainley, was there and I

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Speaker 4: was talking to some of the people, including the council,

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Speaker 4: and I'm cold. The council does not support the area

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Speaker 4: being turned into a suburb. They understand. And now we've

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Speaker 4: been through all this before. It's like, you know, go again.

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Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, And the people they have been through these

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Speaker 4: meetings and they said, look, we can live with some

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Speaker 4: development around the hospital, but there needs to be a

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Speaker 4: buffet to the existing rural people and out from that

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Speaker 4: will be rural. And I'll give you one funny thing.

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Speaker 4: You know, when they were talking about don Dale couldn't

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Speaker 4: stay where it was, even though doing with the others

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Speaker 4: said that's the best place. They said, own developers don't

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Speaker 4: want that to happen. Because that'll make it very hard

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Speaker 4: to sell land in that area because it'll be suburban.

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Speaker 3: So what have we done. You have a look at

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Speaker 3: the plans.

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Speaker 4: They put it right up against the new don Dale

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Speaker 4: site suburbs. You know it's a lot of intelligent people here.

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Speaker 2: Well, i'll tell you what. I've no doubt there's plenty

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Speaker 2: of people that are pretty concerned about this. Jerry, we

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Speaker 2: are going to have to leave it there. We have

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Speaker 2: got such a busy morning. We always appreciate you coming

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Speaker 2: into that. And Mate, I know that a lot of

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Speaker 2: people are going to be upset about this situation with

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Speaker 2: these fire trucks, So let us know whether you hear

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Speaker 2: anything else and we'll do the same.

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Speaker 3: Good on, Jerry. Thank you,