This is a record of an event which occurred on December 9, 2002, in The Bailey's Sector, a location close to Wright's Creek in the Hawkesbury Rural Fire District. NSW, Australia. It was written by Peter Coffill, who was at that time, a Deputy Captain with Grose Vale Rural Fire Brigade. To the present time, being August 28, 2025, the only response I have had was at a brigade general meeting in early 2007, when the FCO advised she "believed the National Parks employee concerned had been suspended". No response has been received from any other authority to any member involved in the incident from Grose Vale Brigade. To my knowledge, no recommendations contained in the report have been acted upon. Valuable lessons were learnt on that day which could save lives in the future. Why has so little been done?

2019.... A customer came to visit my son who was working at home. When he announced his last name, the gentleman turned to me and said "it was you who saved my son" as he reached out to shake my hand. That was Paul's father! To this day he still recalls the time his son returned that day and looked like he had been to the beach instead, his face still a radiant red.

This report was requested by the Brigade Captain, as per the following letter, and was tabled at Grose Vale Brigade's General Meeting, January 20, 2003