My name is Michael Tiley and I am from the Stanmore Rural Fire Brigade.
Our brigade is part of the Stanley Rivers Group, located west of Caboolture.
Last Sunday 1/12/19, the Stanmore Brigade (myself and Joe Canning) together with Hazeldean (three fire fighters) were deployed to a flare up of the fires, up near Jimna. The country up there is devastated by the past fire activity.
During the mopping up activity, I heard a noise that sounded like a small child crying.
I turned around to see this baby fawn (a few weeks old) walking straight towards me.
It was very distressed and overheated, yet I picked it up and we cooled it down with water. It was not injured, yet seemed abandoned, so we placed it in the open storage area behind the truck cab.
Advice from others is that there are many lone fawn in the parched country up in the area.
The female red deer fawn has now received veterinary care and advice is that it is a number of weeks old. It is now being cared for and fed formula from a bottle every three to four hours.
For our brigade members, it was very satisfying to see something positive come from the utter devastation the fires have caused in the area.
