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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio right now is the Chief

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Speaker 1: Fire Officer, Mark spain Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning coatie Spainy.

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Speaker 1: I was meant to be catching up with Joshua Fisher,

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Speaker 1: but then I saw you outside the studio and thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: well there we go. We've got Spainy instead.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's got errands to do all the good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, mate, I know that in preparation for Territory Day tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services are obviously

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Speaker 1: getting out and making sure that Territorians do know what

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Speaker 1: they need to do to prepare to enjoy Territory Days

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Speaker 1: safely and responsibly. Now, what is the message really for

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Speaker 1: Territorians ahead of Territory Day tomorrow around fireworks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, first and foremost, PFAS Media have worked with their

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Speaker 3: volunteer captains. Now I've put a couple of little snippets

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Speaker 3: up on their Facebook page, so if they want to

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Speaker 3: have a look of those.

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Speaker 2: The captains have done some great work of what to do.

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Speaker 3: But realistically what we want to do is if you

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Speaker 3: really follow the manufacturer's recommendations of how to set those

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Speaker 3: fireworks off, be prepared, have a cleared area, have some

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Speaker 3: sort of extinguishing agents, like a bucket of water or

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Speaker 3: a hose close by. And also what I'd also like

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Speaker 3: to do add is that you also have some sort

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Speaker 3: of first aid kit there in the unlikely event that

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Speaker 3: someone gets injured or burnt from one of those fireworks.

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Speaker 1: Now, what do you have to do if somebody does

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Speaker 1: get you know, suffer from an injury or gets you know,

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Speaker 1: I guess gets burned. What do people need to do

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Speaker 1: in the first instance, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Just use the three C rule, Katie is cool.

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Speaker 3: Cover cover with an appropriate rapper to stop any infection

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Speaker 3: getting into the burn like lad rap is a very good,

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Speaker 3: good opportunity, and then call Core for assistance asap, and

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Speaker 3: then try and get that burn sort to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's one of those hard ones.

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Speaker 1: Generally, everybody, well, I know, I try to let fireworks

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Speaker 1: off pretty safely on a bit of a nana when

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Speaker 1: it comes to safety around things like fireworks, But then

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Speaker 1: occasionally get a bit of a rogue one and you

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Speaker 1: think to yourself, oh, my goodness, if that ends up

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Speaker 1: hitting one of the kids or hitting somebody, it could

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Speaker 1: be quite dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I think every year after fireworks you talked to a

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Speaker 3: number of people and especially the medicals either the house.

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Speaker 2: How many injuries as a result of fireworks.

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Speaker 3: You know, you've got a combination of forty fireworks, you've

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Speaker 3: got inappropriate use of fireworks. Alcohol may be involved in

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Speaker 3: certain areas causing incidents. So we just really asked people

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Speaker 3: to be mindful of other people of where they're going

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Speaker 3: to let them off, and to report a triple zero

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Speaker 3: in the event something happens.

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Speaker 1: Now, how are we looking when it comes to the conditions,

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Speaker 1: because obviously last year our Territory Day was held much

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Speaker 1: sort of later in the year and the wind was

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Speaker 1: a real concern. There was an awful lot of fires.

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Speaker 1: I remember speaking to Josh Fisher the following day and

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Speaker 1: there was such a huge number of fires. What are

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Speaker 1: we expecting this year when it comes to those conditions.

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Speaker 3: Were last year we had about four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: odd fire reported across the Northern Territory. This year, How

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Speaker 3: glorious is this weather? That's cloud it's there could be

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Speaker 3: some rain slight chance of rome. We had rain last night,

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Speaker 3: be gusty winds coming through. So just be once again

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Speaker 3: careful how you use your fireworks. But we're expecting not

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Speaker 3: as horrendous conditions as we expected last year, so late

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Speaker 3: in the season.

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Speaker 1: That is good to hear it now. In terms of

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Speaker 1: the number of like how many how many people do

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Speaker 1: you have to sort of have on I guess when

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Speaker 1: it comes to something like this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, generally Katie will double our career cruise to enhance cruise,

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Speaker 3: so that allows the rostered shift on to manage the

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Speaker 3: main major fire appliances to deal with structural fires, road

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Speaker 3: crash or any other core business that they do, and

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Speaker 3: the enhanced crews will go out in the grass fire

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Speaker 3: units and respond to all.

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Speaker 2: The local fires that pop up that are reported. Through

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Speaker 2: triple zero.

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Speaker 3: This year, we're struggling to fill the enhanced crew of such. However,

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Speaker 3: the volunteers are really stepped up, as they do every year.

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Speaker 3: They usually take the day off the next day because

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Speaker 3: they know it's going to be a long one, but

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Speaker 3: we also know it's going to be a Friday night,

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Speaker 3: so it's not we have to get the kids early

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Speaker 3: into bed. They were expecting a very late night early

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Speaker 3: our morning.

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Speaker 1: For all the fire actions, yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: Where are some of there are there some locations where

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Speaker 1: you just absolutely cannot let fireworks off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in the council areas will let you know

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Speaker 3: where they can't be set off, So if you've probably

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Speaker 3: got onto their website, they'll have a clear area where

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Speaker 3: you can and cannot let it off. But the other

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Speaker 3: things too, is when you go down to the ables,

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Speaker 3: just don't put your used don't discard your used fireworks

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Speaker 3: into bins.

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Speaker 2: Wait till they cool down, and then once they're cool.

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Speaker 3: Just put them in, dispose of them correctly for the

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Speaker 3: council workers the next day. And also it avoids those

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Speaker 3: bin fires.

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Speaker 2: How busy does it get for you guys?

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Speaker 1: It must get pretty crazy on territory day, does it.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you're talking to my Jessic operators, the comms operators,

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Speaker 3: they have no hair left by the end of the night.

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Speaker 3: They are sensational the way they coordinate. We'll have two

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Speaker 3: officers in there with the Joint Control Center and we'll

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Speaker 3: take out priorities. Because we're running his cruise bit smaller

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Speaker 3: than normal, we will prioritize those calls.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'll tell you what. Good luck to all

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Speaker 1: the fireries and all of the volunteers of course for

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and please everybody just be as safe as

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Speaker 1: possible so that you know, we don't end up with fires.

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Speaker 3: Everywhere, absolutely catally and really a really good location is

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Speaker 3: down at Lake Alexander to observe across the harbor.

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Speaker 2: You'll see Fanny Bay go off.

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Speaker 3: You'll see like Alexander, large groups gather there and you'll

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Speaker 3: be able to see their fireworks go off as well.

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Speaker 3: So if you knew to town and you need advantage,

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Speaker 3: point like Alexander could.

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Speaker 2: Be the spot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well we're going to catch up with in t

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Speaker 1: major events as well in around twenty minutes time and

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Speaker 1: we'll find out a bit more about the Territory Day

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Speaker 1: celebrations that they've got lined up. Mark Spain, chief Fire

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Speaker 1: Officer for the Northern Territory. Always good to catch up

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Speaker 1: with you. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Likewise, Katie