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    How I live... Firefighting journo ‘MY BURNING PASSION FOR STORIES’

    Jan 31, 2021 3 minutes
    Leena Tailor

    “The exciting part of my life is that every day’s dramatically different. Yesterday I was visiting native bush with my councillor hat on, 30 minutes ago I was on my way to a fire callout and tomorrow I’m driving to Whanganui for a story for my magazine.

    I grew up on a sheep farm in West Otago, the youngest of four girls, and was always reading or writing. In Year 11, the manager of local radio station

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