A young girl who donned her father’s firefighter helmet and was pinned with a medal honoring his sacrifice at his funeral has made the rounds online. It symbolized the devastating toll that bushfires in southeast Australia have had on the firefighters and their families.
When a vehicle that they were driving rolled over, New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) volunteers Andrew O'Dwyer, 36, and Geoffrey Keaton, 32, lost their lives. Both firefighters left behind families, both with 19-month-old toddlers born just two days apart. The men’s funerals were gut wrenching.
