30/08/2026
TASMANIA HAS MORE VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS THAN PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS 🔥
🚒 Tasmania has 11 volunteers for every 1 career firefighter.🔥
🚒 4,000 volunteers versus
360 career firefighters... 🔥
🚒 9 out of 10 Fire trucks is powered by dedicated volunteers
It was with dedicated love for my island home that I created my painting “Survival" after the terrible North-West fires that devastated our heritage forest and local wildlife.
This artwork is a tribute to our native endangered species, who have no voice to cry out and no warning systems to guide them.
Fires don’t just scorch the land, they erase habitats, food sources, and wildlife in a single season.
To the firefighters, volunteer and professional, who run toward the flames when the rest of us are running away… your courage humbles me.
Your dedication, the hours spent away from your loved ones, your willingness to walk into danger for strangers, it leaves a mark on all of us.
I donate framed, signed “Survival” prints to fire stations around the state.
It will never equal the sacrifice our professional and volunteer firefighters make, but it is my way of visually saying,
We see you.
We thank you.
We are safer because of you.
May this approaching season become a call for greater awareness, deeper care, community connection and stronger protection.
Stay safe, stay aware, look after one another and look after the land that looks after us.
READ BY LEA GUY - Creative Thoughts
(Writer & Communications Specialist)
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