In early July, Liz Langford and Lisa Keedle from Community Development are running a Community Fireguard Facilitator training course in the Yarra Valley. Course participants come recommended by CFA Regions with some 30 people put forward this year.
After an initial meeting with the Community Safety Advisory Council (CSAC), we will be embarking on a project to increase the level of community safety support to Brigades.
Fires in public housing estates cost the government a significant amount each year. Causes include unsafe cooking practices and behaviours such as disabling smoke alarms.
The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre has just published two new Fire Notes - one on planning and evaluating community safety programs and another on fire management of the high country.
A documentary following a course of CFA career firefighter recruits over their 16-week course at CFA Training College, Fiskville, will be broadcast on CFA Connect over the next eight weeks.
Attorney-General’s Department in conjunction with Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) have involved young people from CFA in the development of a resource education package for secondary schools.
