
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 ... |
![]() Moorabool Leader | 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 Marsh |
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 plan |
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 ... |
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 ... |
![]() ABC Online | 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 evacuation Firefighters battle blaze at Springvale cardboard factory Workers flee Visy factory blaze |
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 blaze |
![]() NEWS.com.au | 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 levy John Brumby rejects inquiry calls Axing of fire levy cause for celebration |
![]() The Age | 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 appointed fire chief insists: I'm in charge Lapsley takes new fire job |
![]() ABC Online | 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 Saturday Rees out of hiding: I'm sorry Fire boss Rees sorry for Black Saturday |