When you have over five hundred patrol officers conducting fifteen thousand patrols every night around the country, your people are the eyes and ears of many sleeping neighbourhoods. So they’re sure to be first on the scene at many sad incidents and dangerous situations.
Our officers are recruited and trained with this in mind, but in the end, no one can guarantee how an individual will react to emergency. So Southern Cross Protection would like to applaud Nemani Rainibogi for his courage and composure when he recently discovered a house on fire at 2 a.m. on Botany Road in Sydney’s south.
Nemani, on seeing the rear of the house in flames, called the fire brigade, tried to wake the occupants, and woke the neighbours on either side. He attempted to enter the house, but was held back by smoke, heat and flames. So he took up a garden hose (like taking on a Rottweiler with a pocket-knife) and held the fire as best as he could until the fire brigade arrived.
A man’s body was later found in the rubble. Next-door neighbour Chris Hanna had mixed emotions, saddened by a much-loved neighbour’s untimely demise, but happy at his own family’s narrow escape. He expresses his gratitude, “The security guard woke me up, I want to thank him. I didn’t know what was going on, then I saw the orange glow of the flames outside.”
Thank you for your bravery, Nemani.
