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Gary Our

Andison Alumni

Gary Andison was a student at Rupertswood His House team was Naughton, which at that
during 1974 to December 1979. He is now time was blue. He was Captain of the Softball
ranked as a Senior Leading Firefighter with the and Soccer team in later years and enjoyed
CFA at the Sunbury Fire Station. hockey after school. He also played trumpet
He commenced his career with the CFA as a and was fascinated by the history and the build
of the Mansion.
professional Firefighter in July 1990 and has
been there ever since. His role is suited to
someone with a genuine desire to serve the
community, and who thrives on working closely
in a team.

Originally stationed in the CFA in Ballarat, Gary
then moved to Boronia, Scoresby, Greenvale,
Caroline Springs back to Greenvale and then
to Sunbury where he has been since 2007.
“The job entails many areas of service to the
community and environment. It involves fire
and non-fire events”, said Gary.
“We have now added EMR – emergency
medical response to code zero calls. We are
paged to code zero call events along with the
Ambulance service”.
“My role can deal with anything to do with the
respiratory system. E.g., difficult breathing,
heart attacks, drowning’s or suicides. Each day
is never the same”.
Gary experienced six years at the College as
a day pupil. He remembers fondly of the train
service boarding at Woodend and arriving at
Rupertswood.

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