Handwritten speech on foolscap folio size pages. The speech was given by Geoff Blundell to members of the Coffs Harbour and District Historical Society and recounts the history of official and unofficial bushfire brigades in the Coffs Harbour area from the 1940s to the 1980s. It also includes a brief history of fires and other natural disasters experienced in the area in the 1940s and 1950s. Five pages, plus small rectangle of paper affixed to pages.