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The winners of Hume’s Corporal Cameron Baird memorial awards were announced last week. The award celebrates the memory of Gladstone Park local and Australian soldier Corporal Cameron Baird VC MG, by supporting young people in Hume aged 12 to 25 to pursue their dreams. Corporal Baird was awarded the Victoria Cross and was also awarded the Medal for Gallantry for his service in Afghanistan in 2007-08. He was killed in action in 2013 and this year marks the 10-year anniversary of his passing. Amongst the winners was 12-year-old Brazilian jiu jitsu and boxing star Mikail Tamoz. Mikail, from Dallas, won the leading from the front achievement award. He calls himself ‘the anatolian wolf’ and is currently a UAE Jiu Jitsu world champion, an international Brazilian jiu jitsu federation champion, a two-time Australian champion and a seven-time state champion. Mikail is looking to defend his world championship title in Abu Dhabi in November. His goals for this year also include becoming the national champion in his weight class for both boxing and wrestling. The award also came with a $5000 prize which he said he will put towards his Abu Dhabi trip.
Bradbury pleads guilty By Harper Sercombe Four years on from the notorious Campbellfield industrial fire at Bradbury Industrial Services, the County Court heard details surrounding the incident. It took almost 200 firefighters four days to extinguish the April 2019 blaze at Bradbury, a chemical recycling operator. Thick black smoke from the fire blanketed the northern suburbs and resulted in the closure of schools and roads in the surrounding area.
A worker was injured in the fire. On Wednesday, June 14, Bradbury Industrial Services pleaded guilty to six charges relating to the fire and the stockpiling of millions of litres of dangerous goods at five of its sites throughout Craigieburn and Campbellfield. The court heard that the fire was “miniscule compared to what could have happened,” with the Thornycroft Street warehouse housing more than 136,000 litres of dangerous goods, compared to the nine million litres stored across the Yellowbox Drive, Craigieburn, warehouses.
CCTV footage made available by the court shows the fire igniting when an employee attempted to decant a chemical, creating what is believed to be an ectro-static discharge event. The footage shows the worker catching alight and running away from the explosion. He spent three days in hospital after sustaining burns to the face and throat. Bradbury pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to provide a safe work environment for their employees by failing to provide information, instruction, training or
supervision and five charges of failing to take all reasonable precautions for the prevention of any fire or explosion involving dangerous goods. As reported by Star Weekly, Bradbury’s Thornycroft Street plant has been under investigation by the Environment Protection Authority in the weeks before the fire for storing more waste than permitted under its licence. Judge Peter Rozen will hand down a sentence against Bradbury Industrial Services on June 23.
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