Blair Dellemijn

Just before 3pm on Sunday afternoon (4th November), Bulla, Diggers Rest, and Sunbury were paged to a reported Grass and Scrub Fire in the vicinity of Glencoe Drive in Diggers Rest.

How often do you attend a Group Exercise and expect to vie for the coveted Fiskville Cup?

Bacchus Marsh, approximately 50km West of Melbourne, is now home to one of four fully volunteer brigades who have recently taken delivery of the new Scania Heavy Pumper.

Melton Fire Brigade were paged to a reported “Shed fire threatening a house” in Oakfield Court, Melton South yesterday afternoon (25th August).

A little bit of Hollywood came to Toolern Vale last week with future graduates of the Victorian College of the Arts filming a short movie on farmer’s land adjacent to the Toolern Vale Fire Station.

With the heavy rain coming to Melbourne and it’s outskirts last weekend (18-19th August), emergency services were put under the pump with multiple calls for assistance.

A man and his two grandchildren were lucky to escape uninjured from their burning house in Menzies Drive in Sunbury on Saturday night.

It has been a very busy 48 hours for the Melton Fire Brigade, with a number of major structure fires occurring within their area.

The Bendigo Easter Festival is the oldest community festival in Australia, with it's roots dating back to 1870.

The fantastic work by Lilydale and surrounding brigades, shaking tins for the Good Friday Appeal, was dramatically cut short on Good Friday (6th April), when Lilydale and Mooroolbark Brigades were paged to a reported housefire in Chirnside Park.