Magic moments seem to happen seldomly but when they do arrive you never forget them. Volunteering as a fire crew member with my blind husband was one of those magic moments. This week we worked as a team of individuals not knowing many of the people in our 47 strong group creating an extreme situation for 4000 people to challenge themselves.
Today we sitting the group meeting where everyone of these new fire crew family debriefed. There was plenty of learning experiences, golden moments of memories that each person shared in this intense situation. It was a completely moving experience being in a room full of people who were apart of something extraordinary. It was a room of people who truly do give a little more that were willing to do the dirty jobs, the hard labour, the longest day, that little bit extra that unites these people.
"Whenever a group of people go through an intense exercise they bond together like now other team." Explained our team Captain Bill. This experience was intense...raising the bar to what a team of 47 people can accomplish. We each had our own responsibilities and successfully accomplished wheeling wheelbarrows full of raging hot coals onto the lanes in order for thousands to fire walk and conquer their fears.
Today all the team cheered as a few of the the team members acknowledged the efforts of Deano and how inspiring he was with whatever task he was asked to do. Remarkably my Blindman commented to me at the end of a very long and taxing intense day that that he didn't make a huge difference because understandably the risk factor of so many people walking around the fire in the dark and having a blind man in the mix might not be the best decision.
Michelle our second in charge fire chief organised the perfect roll for Deano the wastewater scientist, placing him on the water crew and as such he was in charge (remembering this was at night and in the dark) of making sure none of those 4000 people walked on and tripped over the 2inch fire hose. He also was able to teach team members how to chop wood to make kindling to help start the fire. Neither of these went unnoticed by our new fire crew family who were touched and inspired by the Blindman who never said he couldn't and always offered to help.
The final thoughts of the day were shared by Bill our fearless Fire Team Captain, who drilled us like a Warrant Officer throughout the experience and left us with some some precious pearls of wisdoms that I felt I should record because they reflect my husbands attitude of no limits.
"Do today what others won't, get tomorrow what others can't"
"Embrace the suck!" (Because not everything in life is easy...suck it up and enjoy it anyway)
"We don't quit when we are tired we quit when we're done!"This how we fire walls challenging our inner will and defying the odds
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