Sydney Markets community comes through with new firetruck for Batlow Rural Fire Service

Ashley Walmsley
Updated April 15 2021 - 4:25pm, first published March 26 2021 - 4:00pm
SWEET: (L-R) Rebel Talbert, NSW RFS assistant commissioner, Roger Watkins, Batlow RFS Brigade member, Darryl Watkins, Batlow RFS Brigade captain, Robert Scobie, Batlow RFS senior deputy captain and Carlo Trimboli, chairman, Sydney Markets Foundation, celebrate the donation of the new truck.
SWEET: (L-R) Rebel Talbert, NSW RFS assistant commissioner, Roger Watkins, Batlow RFS Brigade member, Darryl Watkins, Batlow RFS Brigade captain, Robert Scobie, Batlow RFS senior deputy captain and Carlo Trimboli, chairman, Sydney Markets Foundation, celebrate the donation of the new truck.

THE scenes of bushfire-charred Batlow are etched into Carlo Trimboli's mind.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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