Fire fighters award ceremony: Tally Domingue best fire fighter for second consecutive year |26 December 2014

Tally Domingue has been named the best fire fighter for the second consecutive year.

She received the Fire and Rescue Services Agency’s (FRSA) ‘Overall Outstanding Employee Award’ from the hands of the Minister for Home Affairs and Transport Joel Morgan during the fire fighters award ceremony held at the National Theatre last Tuesday afternoon.

Also present were the deputy chief fire officer Albert Rose, divisional officer Regis Bethew and other FRSA officers.

In an exclusive interview with Seychelles NATION after the ceremony, station officer Domingue who is also head of the emergency and disaster management unit, said that she had done nothing special in order to receive the award for the second year going. She rather believes that it is the way she works and the way her management rates her performance which has brought the reward.

The 37-year-old who joined the then Fire Brigade at the tender age of nineteen, added that she has seized opportunities which have been offered to her.

“For someone to prove him or herself he or she has to be given the right opportunities. Maybe I have been given the opportunity and has done something extra out of it,” she said.

For her, the award is not special even if she is a woman as according to her own words, “there is no gender discrimination in the service”.

“As girls we are recognised for our hard work even if we represent a minority,” she said.

Her message to her colleagues is to live according to their motto which is “Desire to serve, courage to act”.

“We must have the desire to serve and to serve all, and have the courage to act and to act now,” she advised.

The other fire fighters who have ended the year as best performers in their respective units are Cynthia Onezime, Alvin Payet, Berard Julie, Trevor Sicobo and Mathew Jones.

During the ceremony, fire fighters who have successfully followed different training courses at national and international levels during 2014 were also presented with their certificates.

They were entertained by dancers from the ‘Emergency Crew’, singers Reuben Lespoir, Berno Cedras and Joennise Juliette as well as one of their own colleagues Philippe Thomas.

In a true fire fighter spirit, the latter sang “Bo tan move tan pa fer nou per, en travay nob nou fer li ek leker”. (We are not frightened by good or bad weather, a noble job we do it with our hearts!)