District 23 News

Tungamah CFA Captain Simon Crawford realised a long cherished dream by winning silver in the World Firefighter's Games last week.

Last Sunday (28 October) Captain Allan Edwards from Goughs Bay-Howes Creek brigade welcomed the local community to celebrate the official opening of the new fire station.  

Like so many CFA members, Pip Johnson has her own personal bushfire history. Her great grandmother put her children in the vegetable patch under wet hessian sacks and watched her life burn down in 1939. Her father was CFA’s first legislative officer around Ash Wednesday and Pip patrolled burn offs on a bush block from age six.

CFA District 23 Operations Report by Operations Manager Stewart Kreltszheim is now available to view.

Sue Sheldrick’s membership of CFA was prompted by Ash Wednesday, 16 February 1983, and she joined District 23’s Killawarra brigade once the fire threat had eased.

Stock agents and insurers across Hume Region are working with CFA to put public safety information in the hands of farmers through their mail.

Firefighters Fundraise for Royal Flying Doctor Service after biker hits kangaroo

Cardiovascular disease was the underlying cause for 46,106 deaths registered in Australia in 2009, which represents 32.8% of all deaths.

South bound lanes of the Hume Freeway near Violet Town could reopen this evening as CFA crews make good progress clearing the wreckage of a fatal crash involving a b-double petrol tanker.

CFA and emergency services are currently on-scene at a truck and car collision on the Hume Freeway at Violet Town.