On the morning of Friday 18/1/13 we were advised that TM41 might be required sometime during the day to assist at the Pine Forest. Fire had been burning there for several days. However, at 1509 we received a cryptic page…

The fire known as Wyatt Road started from a dry lightning strike in an inaccessible valley within the area shown on the map. It was first spotted by a low-flying light aircraft. No immediate action was taken because of inaccessibility…

At 2000 on Friday 11th January we got an improbable sounding page about a burning tree at Knoll NP, but it was exactly that. There was an initial report to the police about the burning tree which was a big…

  24 hrs notice seems to be the norm for deployments, but this call just before Christmas, elicited fewer offers than usual. Roger left early on 21 December in TM51, picked up two more at Greenbank and rendezvoused at Plainland…