 G'day my name is Mick Vincent. Prior to joining the CFA I was a firefighter in Darwin. I've been doing that for about nine years but have moved down to Victoria to be closer to family and make a change again and yeah I've got a wife and two kids. The kids are two and four and I'll be at Rosebud Station. Before I didn't know a lot about the CFA being in Darwin but previous to that I'd worked a little bit with CFA people. I worked for the DSC in Hall's Gap for a few years before Darwin and I went to a few campaign fires with some CFA staff and got to know the CFA a little bit through there. Yeah and I found the the recruit course quite challenging and rewarding and one of the greatest things is some of the the characters I've met and I'm sure I'm gonna have a lot of good friends after it. It's been really good meeting lots of new people. Yeah one of the toughest things about being a firefighter is obviously traumatic incidents. You have to make the best out of very bad situations sometimes and deal with people that are at their worst and try and make them feel better and fix problems that have gone very pear shaped so you have to be able to deal with that and that's sort of why I became a firefighter as well because it's good to go into a situation and and see people visibly become calmer when you arrive at a scene and often it's really good if you can sort of make the most of that and do the right thing and yeah also firefighting is an unpredictable job and you never get bored.