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Double Gold Star for career firefighter Ross Fleet

In the late 1960s teenager Ross Fleet was finishing his high school years in New Plymouth and looking at life ahead. He gave farming a go, then joined the...

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50 years a fireman - still the best career


50 years a fireman - still the best career
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Nicholas Jones is an investigative reporter at the New Zealand Herald nicholas.jones@nzherald.co.nz@nickjonesnzer
Mike "Ringo" Harwood has worked 50 years in the busiest fire station in the country, battling more than 1000 fires and hauling equipment up and down countless high-rises.
Seventy-two this month, he retains the fitness
that made him Mr November in the 1991 firefighters charity calendar, and he cuts off a retirement question before it's finished.
"Nup, I've never thought about it. It will come down to when I know that I can't do the job. I've seen some people struggling, and I've thought, 'Jeez, if I ever get like that I'm out of here'.

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