Strike Team 0844 at Swifts Creek

I returned yesterday afternoon after spending three night shifts at the Swifts Creek Fire Complex.

We spent most of the time on Asset Protection duties. Thankfully the weather and fire settled down overnight leaving the night shift with not much to do.

We stayed in snow villa's at Dinner Plain snow resort and enjoyed luxury accommodation and food.
The Onsen Health Retreat and Spa provided free entry for firefighters and I managed a short, 5km run on the retreats gym.

The spa facility were also well used by our crew.

It wasn't quite all rest and relaxation. While traveling to the staging area for our last shift we were confronted by a huge column of smoke pumping out of the area where we was headed.

As mentioned earlier the fire behaviour did lessen considerably overnight and the properties we were sent to protect at Brookville never came under direct ember attack.

My crew and I on Berwick Tanker.

The road back home had been cut off by fire so it was a very long, seven hour trip the long via Wangaratta, back home.

I seem to put on 2 kilos after everyone of these trips so after a nights rest it was back to exercise this morning.

I ran 10.1 kilometres in 0:52:33 losing one of my fuelbelt bottles along the way (ggrrr).

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