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Speaker 1: Yeah, there we was so many people that did the

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Speaker 1: right thing and so many wonderful things to see right

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Speaker 1: around the Northern Territory for Territory Day. But unfortunately there's

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Speaker 1: always a few who do the wrong thing. But we

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Speaker 1: know that it was a massive Saturday as well, plenty

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Speaker 1: of fun for so many people. And as I said,

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Speaker 1: there were a few situations so where people were injured.

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Speaker 1: As I understanded, six injuries in which people had to

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Speaker 1: be taken to hospital. We'll find out a bit more

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Speaker 1: about that later on the show. There was also a

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Speaker 1: number of fires around the place. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line to talk us through how things went in

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Speaker 1: the rural area and beyond bushfires. Int. Chief Fire Controller

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Speaker 1: Tony Fuller, Good morning to you, Tony.

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Speaker 2: You good morning, Katie Tony.

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Speaker 1: How did things go out in the rural area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty good. Actually, we had about seventy

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Speaker 2: volunteers that turned up across the ante on Sunday night

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Speaker 2: and they assisted us and they did a lot of

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Speaker 2: patrolling and managed to come across about nineteen incidents in

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Speaker 2: the top end that they dealt with along with our staff.

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Speaker 2: And then obviously al Springs was a bit cold and wet,

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Speaker 2: so we didn't get any action down there, and we

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Speaker 2: had another five incidents in Catherine, but they got a

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Speaker 2: bit of rain and we helped out down there as well,

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Speaker 2: So well, pretty good. There was no major incidents in

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Speaker 2: our area anyway.

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Speaker 1: Well, that is good to hear because I know it's

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Speaker 1: so often like if the weather takes a bit of

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Speaker 1: wet weather like it said there in our springs and

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Speaker 1: also a little bit in Catherine too, it can have

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Speaker 1: a huge part to play. Karnash.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually had two big fires on Friday that

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Speaker 2: were still dealing with on Saturday, and we had crews

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Speaker 2: working all day Saturday up to about six or seven

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Speaker 2: o'clock at night cleaning up a fire at Komari. So

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Speaker 2: luckily that night we didn't get any major but it

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Speaker 2: was pretty much due to the quick response of the

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Speaker 2: volley's getting out about fine fires before they got hold.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is good to hear. Hey, with that one

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Speaker 1: out at Kumali, is that all like all under control obviously?

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Speaker 1: All okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we had to do a massive backburn on

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Speaker 2: that one and that was that took most of the

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Speaker 2: cruise most of Surbator to get that under control. And

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Speaker 2: we also had another one at Lake ben on Friday

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Speaker 2: night that we're still locking up on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, that's now what were the cause of those ones?

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Speaker 2: They're still under investigation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, But so from all accounts, by the sounds

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Speaker 1: of things, nothing too significant out in the rural area

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Speaker 1: and beyond even the likes of Catherine and Alice for

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Speaker 1: bushfires int No, there.

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Speaker 2: Was just a few wayward fireworks that went out and

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Speaker 2: the cruise like I said, they've got on top of

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Speaker 2: them pretty quick, lopped them up. We had some incidents

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Speaker 2: at gunpoint, but people delivered lighting into the bush, but

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Speaker 2: nothing eventually out of that, so that was good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Luckily there's always a few people that act a bit

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Speaker 1: stupid though, isn't there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's nature of these unfortunately. But yeah, like I said,

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Speaker 2: we're pretty lucky. And most of the rural area people

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Speaker 2: are really hot on it anyway, because they know the

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Speaker 2: dangers to their properties and they keep an eye out

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Speaker 2: on each other and behave pretty well. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So true, and I know that there was indeed that incident.

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Speaker 1: We're a twenty three year old and a fifty eight

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Speaker 1: year old. We're injured in Virginia. But my understanding is

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Speaker 1: that that falls under police Foreign emergency Services here well

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Speaker 1: in the urban areas, so we might catch up with

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Speaker 1: them about that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely not in our area. That's a big

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Speaker 2: red truck, so they look after that one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I we'll try and find out a bit more.

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Speaker 1: So tiny from your perspective on a whole, how do

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Speaker 1: you reckon Territory Day went?

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Speaker 2: No, we were a pretty good night and that was

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Speaker 2: largely due to the amount of volunteers that came out

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Speaker 2: and helped the community and kept itself good on them.

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Speaker 1: And when you put the call out for Territory Day

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Speaker 1: for those volleys, do you find that there's plenty of

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Speaker 1: people that really do want to help out. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, a lot of them make a night of it.

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Speaker 2: They'll sit around their depots and have a family night

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Speaker 2: and have barbecues and get together and use it a

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Speaker 2: bit of a social event. But then a few of

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Speaker 2: the crews will get out and go mobile and just

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Speaker 2: be in the area to make sure they can be

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Speaker 2: there as quickly as possible. When fiers do you start.

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Speaker 1: I well, good to hear Tony Fuller, always good to

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Speaker 1: catch up with you mate, Thanks so much for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Gatie, you have a good day you too,