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Nathan Barnden thinks anyone in his position would have done the same. The 26-year-old was the divisional commander of a firefighting unit in Quaama, a small town between Cobargo and Brogo on the South Coast, on New Year’s Eve when a ferocious fire front had forced under-resourced firefighters to defend the lives of people in the town’s fire shed. Then Mr Barnden got a triple-0 call. A family of seven was stuck in their burning home. “We received that call and when that call came through for seven people, of which five were kids ……
