NSW Parliamentary Commitee recommends the establishment of a Rural Fire Service Volunteers Benevolent Fund, administered cooperatively by the NSW Rural Fire Service, the Volunteer Fire Fighters Association and the Rural Fire Service Association.
This is one of a number of interesting stories in this week’s News Roundup.
The Daily Telegraph reported that firefighters in one of the Australia’s most bushfire-prone areas have revealed how they were left facing seven major bushfire emergencies with broken equipment, barely enough food and without their main tanker.
An excellent article by Vic Jurskis calling for correct attribution of the causes of the Black Summer fires.
The Bushfire Royal Commission deadline for reporting has been extended by two months.
This is one of a number of stories from around the state in this week’s News Roundup.
Quite a varied lot of stories this week but my favourite was the one about the Cooma Monaro fire trucks. About Regional published a small gallery of some great archival pics.
And in case you missed the news, Rob Rogers appointment has been made permanent.
A VFFA Annual General Meeting is being held at the Friendly Inn, 159 Moss Vale Road, Kangaroo Valley NSW 2577 on Saturday 8th August 2020 between 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m.
A private members bill is in front of the Parliament to allow the Celeste Barber millions to be spent where it was intended. The charity clearly states that it helps people in rural and remote communities and victims of disaster which is utterly misleading and needs to be corrected immediately.
We start this weeks news with some fireworks from Paris. After all it is Bastille Day!
We look at backpackers helping BlazeAid, threatened wallabies surviving the fires, and examine the potential for further fire this coming summer. These and other stories from around the state are featured in our weekly news roundup.
This week the VFFA gives further evidence to the Royal Commission and we feature the story of Glen Alice RFS Captain Tim Frew and his crew who worked for 79 days straight on the Gospers Mountain Fire. Plus all the other news from around the traps.
An interesting video and series of newsletters examining the relationship between bushfires, climate change and fuel loads.