One step at a time: Firies break barriers

SINCE losing two colleagues to suicide in the space of a year, Martin Ryan says the barriers created by a culture of “bottling it up” are starting to topple in the emergency services. Like many 20-year-olds, Mr Ryan felt invincible as a volunteer firefighter at Mildura Fire Brigade back in 2016. Stoicism soon turned to sorrow, however, […]