I remember Gary as a cheerful, generous, compassionate and courageous bloke who put far more into his community than he took out of it. He and I fought many fires together and his courage was not only physical, but extended to fighting against beauracratic idiocy and sticking up for people who weren't there to stick up for themselves. His commonsense was reliable and always available to anyone who needed it. The world would be a better place if he were still in it. Richard Slade for the Slade family, and all those who remember the good old days in Laguna