US firefighters arrive at Sydney airport to applause

[Demovictory9]

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US fire fighters arrived at Sydney Int Airport this week, on their way to assist with fire fighting in Victoria.
Coming through, all gathered gave a spontaneous & lengthy round of applause, reflecting the gratitude & admiration we all have for their generosity. #NSWRFS @NSWRFS

[MontanaMama]

1. Wild land firefighters have a special place

in my heart. My dad fought fires for the USFS when he first started working for them in 1963. I’ve had many friends who were/are smoke jumpers and hotshots. They’re heroes...every last one of them.

[FirstLight]

13. Damn Straight!

I live in the Sierras and the Angora Fire was a terrifying thing for our community...they were able to stop it literally at the edge of the actual city limits, it could have been so much worse!

[Duppers]

17. Justifiably proud, MM.

What an outstanding man.

Heroes, yes, everyone of them! Sadly we'll be needing more & more of their services.
Respect!

[mahina]

2. Got me.

As Australians have done for us.

Thank you firefighters ❤️

[ailsagirl]

14. Me too

[Duppers]

19. And same here.

Gulp. RESPECT!

[KPN]

20. Yup. Aussie firefighters haved helped us out here

in the US at times of need on big fire seasons for at least a couple of decades. It’s great to see that we can and are returning the favor.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

29. When 9/11 happened and NYC was burning everywhere,

Canadian/Canadien fire fighters poured over the border to help. I wrote a letter to Jean Chretien, the Canadian PM at the time, thanking him for sending his angels to us.

What a lot of people do not know is that fire fighters from Cuba wanted desperately to help also, but their calls to assist were denied.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. thank you firefighters .

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Very cool!

[Karadeniz]

5. So glad we're trying to help...hope they're successful!❤

[irisblue]

7. Dude, going with this for your 4th post Hard Truth?

What do you like on pizza?

[Quackers]

12. I see it was delivered.

[Liberty Belle]

8. Maybe the only good thing the Trump admin has ever done.

[Fla Dem]

10. What does trump have to do with these firefighters?

Are they a government agency?

[KPN]

24. Most likely. The item I saw yesterday on this involved National Park Service and US Forest service

wildfire personnel. ... I heard tRump approved them going over to help rake up forest leaves.

[Hekate]

25. Trump has diddly squat to do with any humanitarian aid anywhere. My guess is state Governors...

...respond. A bunch of firefighters are being sent from California.

But Trump? He's still holding up hurricane relief for our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico. Oh wait, he tossed paper towels at them, haha.

[EndlessWire]

30. 6.4 earthquake

and no one cares...can't keep up...

[2naSalit]

9. I recogized two of those guys!

suspected I would, some are from my state and it's been announced a couple times on the news.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Thank you!

[iluvtennis]

15. Bravo - that's the America I'm so proud of.

[3Hotdogs]

16. Who paid for this? Is there a g.f.m. page?

[StarryNite]

18. Wishing them all well.

It brought tears to my eyes. I hope they all know just how much they are appreciated.

[Dem2theMax]

21. Those guys are my heroes!

I live in an area where these guys walk on water as far as we are all concerned. We take every chance we can to let them know how much we appreciate them.

[certainot]

22. and, as is available in most civilized countries, they'll have fine single payer health care

[BootinUp]

23. K&R

[LonePirate]

26. Firefighters are the front line soldiers in the battle against climate change.

[dem4decades]

27. My friend was on a wildfire crew, there's nothing they like

More than being appreciated. It's so nice that the people showed it.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

28. Every holiday season, since I moved to Whatcom County,

I bake up a huge tray of goodies and deliver them to our local firefighters. We live in the shadow of Mt. Baker, so there is all matter of types of fires that happen out here. Year round.

I never leave my name and they still don't know who I am (and I'm fine with that). But I always address the platter with this: To our Angels, the Maple Falls Firefighters.

And I always shake their hands when I see them in the grocery stores. These guys put their lives on the line everyday for people they don't know for a paycheck that does NOT do them justice for the threats they face.

Like I said, these guys are the best of us all: our angels.

[Liberal In Texas]

31. And this is what makes America great.

Not blowing up people with drones.