Whilst Jenny and the kids slept in to recover from Disneyland, I headed over to the Orange County Fire Authority to meet with Battalion Chief Mike Ferdig. Mike was recently over at the Victorian Fires and had shown interest in an exchange program with an urban fire service in Australia.

Our Chief is keen to get a DO program up so I was asked to make initial contact with a couple of departments – OCFA being the first.

Mike shown me over the excellent facility they have which is around 10-12 years old. All services including Engineering, Communications, Training and Administration is at the one site.

I observed the Dispatch Centre in operation (hopefully SACAD brings in some of these features they had here) then watched a Truck Company undergoing some BA training with search and rescue.

Left here at 12:00 to find everyone still in bed back at the hotel.