The united force of all Bendigo firefighters at a shop fire led to some glowing comments from Senior Station Officer Dale Stemmer who doubled as the incident controller.
When Millgrove farmer Brian Halit joined the local fire brigade in 1962, members would scrounge helmets and overalls from the Board of Works depot, the single firetruck sat in a paddock and the fire pump was on loan from an understanding neighbour.
Following the success of the first Junior Leaders camp last year at Phillip Island, CFA is running another camp at Lake Dewar Lodge near Myrniong this weekend (May 18 until May 20).
