21 Jan 2020

Increase in volunteering fire fighters in Australia

From Morning Report, 6:47 am on 21 January 2020

There's been a surge of people volunteering to become firefighters in Australia since the bushfire season started last year.

In the space of a bit over two months, more than 25,000 people volunteered become firefighters.

The average annual intake is about 4000.

Brent Clayton is the managing director of Fire Recruitment Australia, and told Ben Strang the support has been immense.