June 7, 2022
There’s a new face at the Kingaroy Fire Station … former Blackbutt boy David Triscaru has joined the team as a 4th Class Firefighter.
David grew up in Blackbutt and attended Yarraman P-9 and Nanango State High School before moving down to Brisbane.
His career path then took him to the mines in Central Queensland and eventually to Sydney where he was working as a crane operator.
“I was making good money,” he told southburnett.com.au, “but I was not feeling any fulfillment in my job. I began looking for something that would give me more purpose.”
He was living next door to the fire station at North Bondi at the time, and began chatting to the firefighters there.
“Four years later, my dream came true.”
He moved back to Queensland and in January 2021 applied to join the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service.
“It was a 12-month process getting approved,” he said.
When he was finally accepted, David undertook a gruelling 16-week training program at the Queensland Combined Emergency Services Academy at White Island.
“It was pretty intense learning and progressing every day, building on what we had learned the day before,” he said.
He graduated from the Academy on May 26 and began work in Kingaroy just five days later.
David was one of 14 recruits who graduated from the most recent course.
They have now been sent to fire stations right across Queensland.
David will be based at the Kingaroy Station for at least four years, joining the five other full-time staff based at the station.
