Footage from Sea Dog TV’s ‘Bushfire Wars’ gives valuable insight
Our friends at Sea Dog TV International continue their great work in sharing some of the incredible work that happens on a fire ground and behind the scenes for their TV series "Bushfire Wars". Take [...]
Kalamunda Bush Fire Volunteers have our backs before, during AND after!
Thank goodness for Emergency Services Volunteers! As you can see by the Facebook post from our incredible Kalamunda Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade below, being there for the community as a volunteer means not just turning [...]
DFES: Smoking ceremony and turning of the sod prepares Centre of Excellence site
The impending construction of the Bushfire Centre of Excellence (BCoE) facility scheduled to start in February 2020 has been celebrated with a traditional smoking ceremony and turning of the sod. Attendees included Western Australian Premier [...]
Mumbrella: ‘Nothing can prepare you for it’
‘Nothing can prepare you for it’: Sydney Morning Herald photographers on covering the Australian bushfire crisis from the front-line Nick Moir and Wolter Peeters are two Walkley-winning photographers who have been covering Australia’s raging bushfire [...]
WA Today: Ask any firefighter: Prescribed burning mitigates bushfire losses
Considerable publicity is being given to an article by Byron Lamont and Tianhua He titled 'Why prescribed burns don’t stop wildfires'. Professor Lamont and Dr He are academics from Curtin University in Western Australia, the former [...]
ABC: Bushfire survivors call for more fire preparedness support for people with disabilities
Key points: Tom and Lynn Armington lost their house, cars and pets in a 2014 Perth bushfire They would like fire authorities to create a register of all at-risk people Disability advocates are calling for [...]
Terri Kowal presented with Bunbury Citizen of the Year
For all those who know her, it wouldn't come as a great surprise that Bunbury Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade Captain Terri Kowal was presented with the City of Bunbury Citizen of the Year award today. [...]
ABC Radio interview with Secretary/Treasurer Lorraine Webster and EO Darren Brown
The Bushfire Volunteer team were up and about early as usual today and two of them started their official duties with a visit to the ABC Perth studios. Saturday breakfast presenter Christine Layton had a [...]
Queensland Country Life: Bushfire management is best left to locals – Littleproud
LOCAL knowledge will be the key ingredient to future bushfire management and mitigation, according to Federal MP David Littleproud. Following a listening tour of the fire-affected Yeppoon region in Central Queensland, Mr Littleproud, whose various [...]
Opinion: Why we need a Royal Commission into Bushfires
Back in primary school there was a game (for want of a much better word) colloquially known as “pile on”. For those fortunate enough to have never witnessed it, the rules were that when a kid [...]