Bronwyn to the rescue
BY DI SNEDDON
Bronwyn Hill wasn’t in Scone long before she decided to join Scone 443 Fire Brigade.
She wanted to challenge herself and felt she had extra time to give back to her community.
She wanted to do something where she could use her skillset and thought a fire and rescue role might be just the thing.
That was a little over 12 months ago and Bronwyn said the brigade has given her everything she had hoped for and more.
“It has been a huge opportunity to grow my skillset and meet amazing people,” Bronwyn said.
She was one of 11 fire fighters undergoing rescue training at Denman Fire Station over the past three weekends.
Joined by three colleagues from the Scone station, four from Muswellbrook, one from Denman and Singleton and two from Branxton, Bronwyn rated the training ten out of ten.
She couldn’t praise the training enough with the reality of the scenarios added by some apparatus Bronwyn made using her nursing background. Items like an ECG machine, leads and a canula and fluid bags.
She has attended house fires, car accidents and ambulance assist jobs, jobs that have pushed her like she never imagined and that is exactly what she wanted.
Her day job is a clinical care nurse at Hammond Care and Bronwyn chooses when she is available for her on-call fire and rescue.
“When you work you work and just put your name down on the on-call roster when you are available,” Bronwyn said.
When she is not working or on call, Bronwyn loves spending time with her family, particularly her grandparents who live in Aberdeen who are obviously very proud of their granddaughter.