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(truck) fire last week on the M1.

“We do a lot of ambulance assistance as well – it keeps us on our toes.”

At Tweed Heads Fire Station half of the 41 firefighters are professional, while the other half are retained on-call firefighters. The station is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

If there is a call out, firefighters will be out the door within two minutes to attend to the incident.

Choices that are made from the heart

Title: Crucial Choices

Author: Maria Prestinenzi

Publisher: Shawline

Publishing Price: $22.95

By Samantha Elley

is is a book that proves everyone has a story.

Maria is one of many hundreds of thousands of people who came from across the waters to make her home in Australia.

As a happy child in Italy in the 1960s, she then came with her family to a culture very di erent to what she was used to. rough her teens, she experiences language barriers, racism and, of course, boys.

As Maria navigates this new world, she meets and marries her sweetheart and raises a family.