One of our Station Officers at the Metropolitan Fire Service took part of in a run from Los Angeles to New York to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary and to raise funds for the victims of the attack. It was called the Tour of Duty.
It involved firefighters from Australia and United States together making the 4600 km journey over 31 days. John Farnham heard about the run and wanted to help out the cause and he provided 500 tickets to the Fire Service in each city he was doing a concert after the run.
Adelaide was one of the cities and the tickets were for a night on the green style concert at the Coopers Brewery. I scored 6 tickets in the end, getting Jenny & I, Danny & Diana and Bronny and Val Jackson (big Farnham fans) into the concert.
The night was warm and we had a good night with Val Jackson enjoying it the most thinking that she would not have got to the concert – she has not missed one of his concerts in South Australia.
