Firefighter Doug Schutz started volunteering with the Rural Fire Service in Australia's New South Wales state some 53 years ago at age 13 and is part of an army of 72,000 people from across the state who make up the world’s largest volunteer fire service.
Doug Schutz, the Tomerong Rural Fire Service Captain, oversees a controlled burn near Tomerong, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, set in an effort to contain a larger fire nearby. Schutz began volunteering with the Rural Fire Service in New South Wales some 53 years ago, at the age of 13. That was back in the days when the fire truck was a Land Rover that towed a trailer with a water pump on top.
“I’ve lived here all my life, and seen a lot of fires. And this one just doesn’t want to do what it’s supposed to do,” Schutz said. “This fire has its own agenda. In some ways, I nearly think it’s got a brain. When you think you’ve got a handle on it, it will sneak around the backdoor and bite you on the bum.”
People from other countries who are used to relying on professional fire services find the Australian volunteer model hard to understand, but Schutz said it’s how they like it. “They helped us steer this fire around the whole of the bay and basin area, and kept it going north, and kept us safe,” Creer said.
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