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Over fourteen years as a career firefighter, Edbrooke worked at some of the state's largest and most complex fires, including the
Dandenong Dunlopillo factory fire, Black Saturday fires and the Morwell coal mine fire, where it is recorded that he was almost killed during a night shift. The platoon he
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