Legendary writer, Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh has penned a tribute to some of Australia’s fiercest heroes in his latest book. 

The collection of stories retells inspiring and comical tales from our rural fire crews in what Swampy calls a “celebration of human spirit”.

“Some of the situations those people got in, I’d be terribly afraid of going into,” he told Sofie Formica. “And they’re volunteers!”

“Everybody’s kind of got a story and I try and give everybody a little bit of a voice.”

Press PLAY below to hear the story that stood out to Swampy most

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