 To start with I was thought I'd be nervous having my daughters on trucks that you know if you're on different trucks it's a bit harder because I was a bit nervous thinking you know I can't keep an eye on them are they gonna be okay. So I work for Coles I'm a department manager so I actually work 40 hours a week as well on average and have the girls and they actually have another little sister as well Ella so she's not quite old enough to become a brigade member yet yeah she will when she's 10 11 yeah and fire brigade actually work fire brigade. That is actually at school work fire brigade. And then out of fire brigade it's other sports like netball or something. Yeah we had a call out the other day and I ran from home to here so I was like just so I could make the truck and be one ahead but I'm still not caught up. Yeah like I'm still up there. We're rivals the whole way. Even though we still love each other we're still rival of who's gonna make make truck and who's turning out and I'm like I'm one up on you which is like how long have you been going to? Yeah so it's really it's really competitive. But we're a competitive anyway. Yeah we're a competitive family so yeah in a good way. Not in a bad way. But the CFA is just incredible like I they could be on a truck ten k's away from me and I've got no concern at all because the training that is involved that what we do what we get trained to do we would never be sent out on something that we weren't trained for one or where I thought that anyone would be in a situation that I wasn't you know happy with but our senior members as well they would never ever make us turn out to something that they thought that we couldn't handle or that was you know that we just weren't trained enough for. You don't really feel hesitant about it but you do know like when I first started you noticed that oh wow there's a lot of a lot of males and then kind of eventually from when we started that's when all the females started turning up. Yeah yeah it is a bit nerve-racking because I think oh god like I'm the only girl in an all male brigade like there was a ladies at Zilla and stuff so you do see other females but like I think we had the like same with me and Mon we had the opportunity like we've done juniors so we kind of knew everyone. Yeah he just fit in anyway. The experience that you get from joining a brigade is it's just amazing. The amount of opportunities that you get like helping out with community safety with kids and stepping up into leadership roles like secretary and everything like that's just great. If there's any females that are looking to becoming firefighters or ever thought about it I'd say go for it absolutely. Just see your local brigade and get your name on there. It like further breaks that bridge like if there's more females joining then there's no oh you've got to break the bridge like it's just not even diversity. Yeah it's just normal to just oh there's a female joining oh yeah cool like there's nothing no question like it's just the norm. It's the norm.