Benalla Brigade had a big day out at the town’s annual Day at the Gardens: boosting up the community event with a smoke house, publicity trailer, staging area trailer, tanker, slip on and trailer pump, pumping displays, – even a flaming lawnmower.
Snow and fire do not exactly go hand in hand, but as a spate of incidents at the Mount Hotham Village proved recently, fire safety is still a hot issue during the colder months.
A group of CFA volunteers from across the Hume region never thought they’d find themselves in Central America for two weekends, but that was the scenario put to CFA volunteers undertaking the Fireline Leadership Program at Shepparton recently.
The Samaria Rural Fire Brigade will celebrate its Diamond Jubilee in 2013. A book is being written about the brigade history to commemorate the milestone.
From the end of April, through May and into June the Mobile Education Unit (MEU) travelled the highways and back roads of Victoria's fabulous High Country.