Paul Parker had been fighting fires for days when he became so famous for his acrid view of Prime Minister Scott Morrison that strangers all across Australia decided he deserved a beer and a bar tab without end.

Exhausted and emotional, Parker, from the tiny riverside village of Nelligen on the NSW South Coast, gained national notoriety in early January when he roared in a fire truck towards a TV camera crew, hung out the window and unloaded an expletive-laden tirade aimed at the Prime Minister.

Parker's furious opinion that Morrison was failing volunteer firefighters went viral on social media, and now he won't need to pay for a beer at his local pub, Nelligen's Steampacket Hotel, for a very long time.

"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," says the licensee of the Steampacket Hotel, Joel Alvey.