8,000 new recruits join NSW Rural Fire Service

Amanda Shane, second from right, is joined by new recruits Jade and Katrina Hansen, to her left, and Melinda Renwick.(ABC South East NSW: Adriane Reardon)

It was the horror of last season's fires that spurred so many to join the Rural Fire Service in the single largest yearly intake of volunteers in the service's history. "There was no question after last summer that I wouldn't sign up," said Melinda Renwick, one of 20 new recruits at the Tathra Brigade on the NSW Far South Coast. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-01/nsw-south-coast-rural-fire-service-recruits/13012462