District 7 News

A man is lucky to be alive after his car collided with the Queenscliff Blues Train at Drysdale last night (10 Nov).

By Glenn Wilson

On Sunday, 21 October Wingeel CFA Volunteers celebrated the official opening of their new CFA fire station on Wingeel Road.

The Ballan Jockey Club is making the Ballan Cup a special day for hundreds of emergency services personnel who will receive free entry to the meeting on Saturday 10 November at the Geelong Racecourse.

**St John of God Geelong Hopital media release**Last night, the inaugural ‘Building Beaut Blokes’ event was held at CFA’s Fire Station in Corio. The event was aimed at celebrating some of the great work happening in the region focused on male health through areas such as mental health, social connection, physical health and relationships.

On September 29, 2012 we held our annual brigade dinner at Peter Slattery’s excellent Terindah Estate Winery and this year we had an extra reason to celebrate with three of our members reaching major milestones in their membership with the CFA.

Fire Safe Kids & Captain Don from Dartmoor Fire Brigade.It was all about Fire Safety when the CFA Fire Safe Kids program visited Dartmoor Primary School in South West Victoria this month.With 21 students from Prep to Year 6, the day was broken into a morning and afternoon session. The morning session with the Prep to Year 3 students covered Stop Drop & Roll and Get Down Low and Go Go Go! Great fun was had when the children practiced their Go Go Go under the smoke parachute.

Years on the fireground have led Group Officer Simon Armytage to formulate some golden rules:All you need at a fire is some water, a bit of commonsense and local knowledgeYou can ask a volunteer if they would please do something but don’t ever tell a volunteer what to do.If it’s dark and you’re on a strike team, you must have local knowledge.

The Barwon South West Community Development Team had a team building day on Wednesday the 19th of September at the Lismore Emergency Services Complex.

The Otways Action Reseach project, a partnership project between CFA and DSE, is assessing the benefits of fire conversations and local fire planning with community members in the Otways.