Vic Bushfire Update: CFA Superheroes

The volunteer fire men and women of the CFA (Country Fire Authority) are certainly heroes, as evidenced by the amazing work that they have been doing in response to the bush fires. But what I have discovered is that they are in fact superheroes. I was at the supermarket earlier today buying some supplies for kids affected by the fires. A maintainance guy who was working near the check out commented on what I was purchasing and the fact that I was in salvo uniform. He started talking about his role in the fires, as he was a CFA volunteer. Here was a man going about normal life doing his day job, who had 24 hours earlier been fighting the worst bush fire in Australian recorded history. These men and women who saved lives, property and livestock who showed incredible mateship towards one another, are normal folk in our communitys. Just like superheroes though, in times of distress and emergency, they shed their normal day clothes and become firefighters staring into the face of the hell.