Google CFA News Feed

Australia to rely on Erickson air tanker
Mail Tribune
The Australian Department of Sustainability and the Country Fire Authority discovered water dropped by the DC-10 fell with such force it could potentially ...

and more »

Students' lucky escape as school bus burns to ground
The Age
Country Fire Authority members extinguish a bus fire near Bacchus Marsh today. Photo: Country Fire Authority Fourteen children have been evacuated from a ...
PICTURES: School bus catches fire near Bacchus MarshMoorabool Leader

all 5 news articles »

Victoria scraps VLAT fire jet plan
Sydney Morning Herald
Those agencies, including the Department of Sustainability and the Country Fire Authority, urged the government to test the VLAT last summer. ...
Vic govt scraps fire jet planSky News Australia

all 7 news articles »

Skipton residents remain on flood alert
Ballarat Courier
State Emergency Services and Country Fire Authority brigade members and volunteers set up sandbag walls in front of businesses. But water began rising from ...

and more »

Leave homes or risk being isolated, residents warned
The Age
About 50 army personnel and Country Fire Authority volunteers doorknocked at houses in Kialla Lakes, an estate to the south of Shepparton near where the ...

and more »

Visy fire spreads to three buildings
Sydney Morning Herald
Fire crews from both Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and Country Fire Authority (CFA) stations are battling the blaze. A CFA spokesman said the fire is ...
Blaze sparks Visy factory evacuationHerald Sun
Firefighters battle blaze at Springvale cardboard factoryLeader News
Workers flee Visy factory blazeThe Age

all 28 news articles »

Guests escape country hotel fire
Herald Sun
It took 40 firefighters about an hour to bring the fire under control, a Country Fire Authority spokesman said. Damage was severe but mostly confined to the ...
Hotel guests escape blazeSky News Australia

all 33 news articles »

Dumping of fire levy welcomed
Sydney Morning Herald
... raising almost $600 million a year - about three-quarters of the budgets of the Country Fire Authority and Metropolitan Fire Brigade. ...
Victoria to scrap fire services levyABC Online
John Brumby rejects inquiry callsThe Australian
Axing of fire levy cause for celebrationBendigo Advertiser
The Age -ZDNet Australia
all 188 news articles »

Victoria's first fire chief appointed
ABC Online
Craig Lapsley, a former deputy chief fire officer of Victoria's Country Fire Authority (CFA), has been appointed Victoria's first Fire Services Commissioner ...
New fire Vic commissioner appointedSydney Morning Herald
fire chief insists: I'm in chargeThe Australian
Lapsley takes new fire jobWeekly Times Now
ABC Local -Herald Sun -The Age
all 50 news articles »

Fire boss Rees says sorry
Sydney Morning Herald
More than two weeks after the royal commission into the fires delivered its scathing final report, the former Country Fire Authority (CFA) chief said he ...
Former CFA head apologises over Black SaturdayABC Online
Rees out of hiding: I'm sorryHerald Sun
Fire boss Rees sorry for Black SaturdayHerald Sun

all 41 news articles »