Family is everything. Family is the reason for getting up in the morning. For working hard. For caring about our community. For caring about our country and its future.
This was true for Geoff Keaton and Andrew O’Dwyer as they headed out last Thursday night as part of the Horsley Park RFS Brigade.
Like the more than 200,000 other registered firefighters in Australia, they would have seen their service as an extension of their devotion to their families.
Geoff and Andrew were tragically lost while displaying extraordinary courage and service to our nation and their local community.
Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting Geoff and Andrew’s families – their wives, their parents and their young children. I personally expressed Jenny and my condolences. I also met their incredible local RFS family who are deeply mourning their loss.
