‘Welcome to the Rock’ - Gander Resident and Come From Away ‘original’; Oz Fudge

STAGES with Peter Eyers · Aug 24, 2022 · 53m

In September 2001, Oz Fudge was one of two town constables in Gander. While the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the so-called “Mounties”) handled major criminal investigations, Fudge handled community-oriented enforcement, including traffic tickets, public disorderliness and the like.

He was on duty monitoring speedsters in the school zone when he was alerted to the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. Seemingly another country away, the trauma of the event was soon to arrive on his doorstep, as the air space was to ordered to clear immediately and all planes were instructed…