 So today we're here at the airport sending off crews to two places one to the US obviously in the US particularly on the West Coast in three states they're losing numerous houses there's been lifelosses there's wildfire that's not yet under control and crews from Parks Vic, Delp and CFA are going across to both be on the fire line in firefighting and incident management and aviation. We're also today through MFB, CFA and SES sending crews across to Greece they also had bushfires and we've been asked to provide support across to Greece and sitting behind that we're doing planning for a deployment potentially to Canada so we've got people literally going all over the globe providing services in fighting bushfires so that's what we're doing here today. This isn't my first deployment to the United States I was involved in the fires around the Napa and Sonoma counties in California last October I conducted the same role that I'll be doing this time around which is the divisional supervisor position. It's a little bit nervous heading away again especially leaving the family for such a long time but I've got a bit of confidence in our ability to work well with the Americans the recent management team is very similar to ours and we're well received last year and I believe that it will be a positive experience and hopefully that hopefully we can make a difference. The 12 of us from Victoria will provide different levels of assistance personally my role is to assist with the logistics of the aircraft movements with respect to wildfire suppression so my role essentially or more commonly known as an airfield manager or an airbase manager over at over in the western states. Assumably California perhaps Idaho been told at this stage of deployments up to 42 days and involves 14 day shift rotation so 14 days on two days off 14 days on and we're looking forward to working with our counterparts over in the States learning what you know picking up some great experience and exposure from there hopefully you bring it back here