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Farm Weekly: Hot under the collar
Bushfire Volunteers Executive Officer Darren Brown at the WAFarmers Merredin meeting A WAR of words has erupted between Bushfire Volunteers executive officer and Western Australia’s Emergency Services Minister over how the State’s Emergency Services [...]
Paramount issues raised at Pingelly Roadshow
Just over 40 people attended our Farmer Engagement Partners WAFarmers Regional Roadshow in Pingelly this afternoon, to listen to and discuss many important issues affecting farmers and firefighters alike in regional Western Australia (WA). Bushfire [...]
WA Gov’t: Collie’s new emergency services centre creating jobs in the South-West
Construction set to start on a new $13.4 million emergency services centre Centre officially named the Koolinup Emergency Services Centre The centre will be built by South-West based builder Perkins Builders and create 130 jobs [...]
ABC: NSW Government accepts all 76 bushfire inquiry recommendations
Key points: The inquiry analysed NSW's approach to last season's bushfires, which burnt 5.3 million hectares The report gave recommendations about hazard reduction, fauna and mental health Ms Berejiklian said the pain and trauma of [...]
SBS: Funding for Victorian bushfire-affected communities as premier warns upcoming summer will be a challenge
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said he is confident the state will be prepared to handle the coronavirus pandemic and bushfire season but admits "it won't be an easy summer". Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the [...]
IT News: Fortescue manages bushfire threat from space
Prescribed burning at FMG's Christmas Creek site. Source: FMG Undertakes 'fire scar' mapping. Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) has developed a remote sensing tool to protect its staff and assets in the Pilbara by [...]
Bushfire Volunteers, SES and WALGA discuss formal engagement and consultation agreement
As the peak body for the 20,000 amazing women and men of WA’s Local Government Volunteer Bush Fire Brigades, the association has a long history of working with the WA Local Government Association (WALGA) on [...]
Bushfire Volunteers / WA Farmers member forum – Merredin 19 August 2020
Our wonderful Farmer Engagement Partner, WAFarmers, have collaborated with the Bushfire Volunteers WA team and planned a number of forums in various towns across our amazing state to discuss topics relevant to your farm, brigade and [...]
Can you help: Psychologist wanted to guide development of new service for volunteers
The association is very proud to have been working hard behind the scenes to develop yet another new member service - this time in the critical area of volunteer mental health. The project still has [...]
Canberra Times: ACT bushfire inquiry: Volunteer firefighters call for more respect and better conditions
The Orroral Valley fire which destroyed most of Namadgi National Park also brought with it tensions between volunteer firefighters and the Emergency Services Agency. Picture: Jamila Toderas / Canberra Times The ACT Rural [...]
Keeping up with the times – Bushfire Volunteers launch social media group
Last week, the association launched our very own ‘Bushfire Volunteers – Socials, Content & Community Group,’ on Facebook. The group is dedicated to spreading awareness of the great work that Western Australian Bush Fire Volunteers [...]
Bushfire Volunteers / WA Farmers member forum – Dalwallinu 21 August 2020
Our wonderful Farmer Engagement Partner, WAFarmers, have collaborated with the Bushfire Volunteers WA team and planned a number of forums in various towns across our amazing state to discuss topics relevant to your farm, brigade and [...]
DFES conference back on, no ESL support for ours
Regular readers will recall this kind post we shared in June about DFES making the decision to cancel the 2020 WAFES Conference because of COVID-19. While that was certainly unfortunate news, the good news we [...]
Australian Emergency Law: BA for a West Australian bush fire brigade?
Here's an interesting legal opinion from Barrister Michael Eburn PhD about Breathing Apparatus (BA) for Bush Fire Brigades. If you haven't seen Dr Eburn's Australian Emergency Law website, please check it out and subscribe - [...]
QLD Country Life: Queensland’s rural firies push for fire service restructure
Hosed down: Queensland's Fire and Emergency Services has hosed down rural firefighters' concerns, saying it is working to ensure all three services continue to grow and work together. Picture: RFBAQ A special meeting [...]
WAFarmers / Bushfire Volunteers 2nd regional meeting a great success!
Dave Gossage AFSM presenting at the WAFarmers / Bushfire Volunteers Northam Regional Roadshow 31 July 2020 Just over 30 farmers, politicians and firefighters took time out of their day to attend the second [...]
ABC: Esperance-based water bomber and qualified pilot unable to help in local bushfire emergency
Scott Mackie and his water bomber plane, which are not contracted to fly around Esperance.(ABC Esperance: Emily Smith) Key points: When four people were killed in Esperance's 2015 bushfires a coroner said the [...]
WA Gov’t: $15 million COVID-recovery package for WA’s emergency services
$13 million for upgrades to emergency services volunteer facilities $2 million for water tanks for bushfire brigades Local content and jobs to be the priority as part of McGowan Government's $5.5 billion WA Recovery Plan [...]
No response on Yanchep, no progress on Norseman incident reviews
Members would recall this article last week (Lack of Incident Review report into 2019 Yanchep fire disappointing) about the fact that there hasn't yet been any kind of consultation with volunteers about an incident review [...]
Bushfire Volunteers / WA Farmers member forum – Northam (Jennacubbine) 31 July 2020
Our wonderful Farmer Engagement Partner, WAFarmers, have collaborated with the Bushfire Volunteers WA team and planned a number of forums in various towns across our amazing state to discuss topics relevant to your farm, brigade [...]