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Quick Quiz: Tell us about your Brigade: Power
Help us help you by completing this quick quiz about your Brigade and its access to and use of electricity.
Augusta Margaret River Times: Call to end fireys code gag
Call to end fireys code gag Local MP Terry Redman and his National Party colleagues are calling for the Premier to intervene in tough new code of conduct changes they fear will muzzle the State’s [...]
Minister Logan: Time for Nats to focus on ES task
Time for Nats to focus on ES task The following letter to the editor from Emergency Services Minister Hon Fran Logan was published in the Augusta Margaret River Times today If the WA Nationals really [...]
ABC: Compulsory Department of Fire and Emergency Services Code Of Conduct worries volunteers
Key points: Nationals MP Terry Redman says the restrictions detailed in the code are a "gag order" on volunteers One veteran volunteer bushfire fighter is concerned skilled and eager volunteers would "slowly walk away from [...]
SMH: Volunteer firies ‘disenchanted’ and ‘disrespected’ by bureaucracy
Volunteer firefighters are leaving the ranks in NSW and Victoria due to disrespect from city-based professional emergency managers, the bushfire royal commission has heard. Volunteer Fire Fighters Association of NSW vice-president Brian Williams said fire [...]
South Western Times: $13.4M DFES centre and fire truck building facility to be built in Collie
A new $13.4 million Department of Fire and Emergency Services management centre and fire truck building facility earmarked for Collie are set to create local jobs and bolster the region’s manufacturing industry into the future. [...]
FAQ: DFES Code of Conduct
As we reported last week, Nationals Member for Warren-Blackwood Terry Redman was evidently contacted by at least one volunteer about the recently "redesigned" DFES Code of Conduct that included a statement saying volunteers may [...]
Busselton Mail: Generous gift to emergency services volunteers
Acton South West have led the charge to raise $10,000 for the WA Emergency Services Volunteer Hardship Assistance Scheme. Acton partnered with a number of sponsors to badge an awareness vehicle which acknowledged local businesses [...]
Quick Quiz: When do volunteer firefighters wash their PPC/PPE and who pays for it?
Help us help you by completing this quick quiz about how your Personal Protective Clothing (PPC) gets cleaned and washed.
We hear you: Bushfire Volunteers association consulting in WA’s Great Southern
Bushfire Volunteers President Dave Gossage ASFM met with volunteers from a number of Bush Fire Brigades the Great Southern region of Western Australia last week to discuss important issues facing our members. During the event, [...]
Support from Prime Minister Scott Morrison for our mobile App – ESVolunteers.org.au
Sadly, COVID-19 restrictions meant we couldn't progress with the big in-person celebration we had hoped to have to launch our awesome new Essential Service Volunteers mobile App. So in April, we wrote to the offices [...]
ABC: Fresh concerns over union influence as CFA boss quits ahead of controversial firefighting overhaul
Firefighting has been dogged by turf wars between Victoria's volunteers and career firefighters for years.(Supplied: CFA) As Victoria's troubled fire services are rocked by the resignation of a top fire chief less than [...]
Bushfire Volunteers Western Power Grants Program update
We are very pleased to report that the 2020 Bushfire Volunteers Western Power Grants Program has wrapped up with more than 100 Brigades applying for funding for almost $400,000 worth of tools, equipment and services [...]
Wanneroo Times: DFES denies plans to relocate fire station
Joondalup Fire Station near Drovers Market Place. Drovers Market Place and Carramar Village Shopping Centre businesses are feeling the effects of prolonged roadworks as well as COVID-19. Credit: David Baylis/Community News THE Department [...]
Parliamentary Debate: Code of Conduct (Speakers: Terry Redman, Premier Hon Mark McGowan, Shane Love, Hon Fran Logan)
The following Question Without Notice and subsequent Motion were presented by the Member for Warren-Blackwood Terry Redman in the Legislative Assembly today. The QWN was answered by Premier Hon Mark McGowan and speakers in response [...]
QWN: Hon Rick Mazza to Minister for Finance re Disposal of old Fire Trucks
The following Question Without Notice was asked by the Hon Rick Mazza MLC and answered today in the Upper House of Parliament by the Hon Stephen Dawson MLC as the Minister representing the Minister for [...]
QWN: Hon Colin De Grussa to Emergency Services Minister Hon Fran Logan MLA
The following Question Without Notice was asked by the Hon Colin de Grussa and answered today in the Legislative Council by the Hon Stephen Dawson MLC as the Minister representing the Minister for Emergency Services. [...]
QWN: Terry Redman to Emergency Services Minister re DFES Code of Conduct
The following Question Without Notice was asked by the Member for Warren-Blackwood, Terry Redman and answered by the Emergency Services Minister, Hon Fran Logan MLA. For the record: The Association had no involvement in this [...]
CBH Group: Growers provide $150,000 to charities from forfeited grain
Below is a media statement from our friends at CBH Group announcing a number of very worthy donations it made via its Harvest Mass Management funding this year. Bushfire Volunteers is extremely proud to have [...]
Coles Group and Bushfire Volunteers support Shire of Dumbleyung Community Day
Bushfire Volunteers' President Dave Gossage joined volunteers from Bush Fire Brigades in Kukerin, Moulyinning, Nippering, Dongolocking and Dumbleyung, at a community breakfast held by the Dumbleyung Community Resource Centre in Moulyinning today. This informal ‘Thank [...]