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CFA fireys rescue 15 workers from Costerfield mine fire

Specialist CFA firefighters have worked overnight to rescue 15 workers from a mine fire at Costerfield.

5 Mar 2023 Incidents - Others Others Partnerships

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CFA volunteers check out the season's best emergency aircraft

There was a buzz of excitement as 20 District 8 volunteers approached the Essendon Fields Airbase, already sighting several firefighting aircraft based at the location for the current summer season.

22 Feb 2023 Partnerships Training and Recruitment

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School kids teach their community about bushfire safety

As the finale of their bushfire education lessons for the year, students from Strathewen Primary School engaged with the local community for a bushfire education event where they taught their parents ...

16 Dec 2022 Community Safety Partnerships Youth and Juniors

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Reaching out to people with a disability – The Melbourne Disability Expo

“Why are the fire services here?” was often the first question at the CFA and FRV stall at the Melbourne Disability Expo (25-26 November 2022).

29 Nov 2022 Community Safety Partnerships

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Car crashes into house in Thornhill Park

On Sunday 23 October, Rockbank Fire Brigade was called to a car which had impacted the side of a house in Thornhill Park.

27 Oct 2022 Incidents - Others Others Partnerships

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New flag reflects hope

Having recently returned from a three-day deployment as a strike team leader to Rochester, I reflected on the resilience of Rochester Fire Brigade members whose town and fire station were devastated b ...

25 Oct 2022 Incidents - Others Others Partnerships People

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A winding road to improve fire safety for people at higher risk

In the freezing cold of the first week of August I set out on an adventure from Mansfield to Kyneton.

29 Aug 2022 Community Safety Partnerships People

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CFA volunteers to boost cardiac arrest response

Volunteer firefighters from 50 CFA brigades will soon be trained and equipped to provide life-saving first aid and resuscitation in response to Triple Zero (000) calls in support of Ambulance Victoria ...

12 Jul 2022 Community Safety Partnerships People

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Safer Together – ongoing boost to fire services

The Victorian Government launched the Safer Together program in late 2015. Since then it has been led jointly by CFA and DELWP. It marked a change in policy for fire agencies with the aim to improve c ...

27 May 2022 Community Safety Partnerships

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Planned burn at Dunkeld helps protect the community

CFA’s Planned Burn Task Force, Forest Fire Management Victoria and Parks Victoria came together to conduct complex planned burns for the Southern Grampians Shire Council around the town of Dunkeld in ...

26 May 2022 Community Safety Partnerships

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Research into rain forest flammability

When the Australian Fire Danger Rating System was pioneered by Alan McArthur during the 1950s and 1960s, it was based on standard dry eucalypt forests on level ground and assessed the difficulty of su ...

20 May 2022 Community Safety Partnerships Planning and Research

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Successful ecological burn in Malmsbury

Members of Malmsbury Fire Brigade have taken part in an ecological burn alongside Macedon Ranges Shire council as part of the ongoing reclamation of Malmsbury common.

4 May 2022 Environment Partnerships

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