 Local media are a great resource for reaching your community. There are lots of successful stories out there of brigades building and maintaining good relationships with local journalists. These relationships are often instrumental in getting the media to link fire safety messages back to the journalist's own stories from incidents or events. CFA wants you to work with local media and share your stories with your community to keep fire safety at the forefront of mind. Let's hear from the other side of the fence and what local print journalist Danny Butler thinks about CFA. We like stories about CFA because it's about local people doing local things. It's about good news stories because the CFA is about helping the local community. There's no negativity about the CFA as a rule. It's all about volunteerism. It's about community action. It's about saving people and saving property, which is great for local papers. The best way to get a story published in the local paper is to get in contact with your local journalist, get in contact with your local editor, just make a call, send an email. There are people in the community too. They want to be involved with you. Then it's a matter of telling them what you're doing. If you've got good events on, if you've got new recruits, you can do it yourself. You can send out some information. You can ask the journalist to come out. One of the most important things is to get a nice photo if you can, because it's great to have local people, local faces in the paper, but just get in touch, start the ball rolling and local papers will be there to help you.