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“A pub rock soundtrack accompanies archival footage of National Safety Council training exercises that are pure James Bond. Along with para-rescue involving dogs and even pigeons, the group pioneered aerial firefighting.
“People that came across the National Safety Council will say, ‘Oh, they had a lot of toys. They had a lot of equipment,’” says Grant. “And it feels, especially towards the end when the spending gets out of control, [Friedrich] was almost just collecting them. And so I thought that there was that playground that he created … Not the people that were involved. They were doing incredible work.”

At the time I remember thinking, “para-jumping” into bushfires, that’d be useful.

<https://smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/he-was-one-of-australia-s-greatest-fraudsters-now-a-documentary-is-uncovering-his-extraordinary-story-20260211-p5o1ej.html> / <https://archive.md/hQ28f>