A firefighter in Australia who made headlines telling Scott Morrison to "get f***ed" has been fired.
In January, as hundreds of devastating bushfires pushed emergency crews to the limit, Rural Fire Service (RFS) firefighter Paul Parker was filmed driving a fire engine in Nelligen, on the south coast of New South Wales.
When he passed a TV crew, he screeched to a halt.
"Are you from the media?" he says as he pulls up beside a 7News camera.
"Tell the Prime Minister to go and get f***ed from Nelligen."
The exhausted firefighter was later seen to have collapsed on the ground by the roadside.
Following his outburst, Parker was asked by the RFS to "take a break".
A spokesperson for the RFS at the time denied dismissing the firefighters, saying the break was "for his own welfare".
The spokesperson claimed the comments Parker made towards Morrison weren't a factor in him taking a break
But in a new interview on Australia's The Project, Parker says that wasn't the case at all and he has since been sacked for the incident.
"Another captain from another brigade within Batemans Bay came out and I asked him the question, I said: 'What’s going on?' "He said: 'You're finished because of your allegations and foul language against the PM of the country while representing the RFS'," Parker told the show.
"[I] didn’t know you could get sacked from a volunteer organisation but apparently you can."
He may have lost his post it seems the comment has earnt him an endless supply of free drinks at his local pub.
"Pretty much every day someone comes in and puts their money down, telling us to buy a few beers for that bloke who got stuck into the Prime Minister," Joel Alvey, who works at the Steampacket Hotel in Nelligen, told The Sydney Morning Herald.
"We've had people ringing up from all around Australia, wanting to transfer money so Paul doesn't need to pay for his own beers."
According to Alvey, Parker "only said what the rest of us were thinking".
The fires, which burned uncontrollably for months, were finally extinguished or contained last week following heavy rain in many parts of Australia.
