News Roundup September 15th

Get Ready week is upon us with many fire sheds opening to the public for some community engagement.
This is one of a number of stories in our News Roundup for the week.

Minderoo Foundation Fire Shield Launch

Some exciting announcements from Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation. The new initiative is called Fire Shield and we cover the launch event.

The Great Koala Crisis

Koalas make the headlines today with the Nationals ‘pulling out’ of the coalition over their koala policy.
Read Vic Jurskis views on the subject and we’ve included a couple of links to the governments policy documents.

The Bushfire Front

A look at the Bushfire Front in WA and a review of some of their excellent articles with a focus on prescribed burning.

Investing in early fire detection could save $8 billion

An ANU study suggests that early detection and suppression of bushfires could save $8 billion over the next 30 years.

News Roundup September 8th

A 71% decline in koala numbers in northern NSW is devastating news. On the brighter side though is the survival of the glow worms in the Wollomi NP.
These are a couple of the many stories from this weeks News Roundup.

Introducing Some CRC Publications

Some interesting research from CRC including the current bushfire seasonal outlook and a paper on how to retain your volunteers. Essential reading for every brigade!

Royal Commission publishes its Interim Observations

The Royal Commissions Interim Observations provide a guide to those areas that the Commission is working on. Read all our comnments in the fully story here.

News Roundup September 1st

A Black Summer fire photo wins the Australian Geographic Award, an all girl crew in Macksville is a first for that Brigade, there’s lots of HR burns going on around the place, and our Commissioner is good for a loan after his 11% pay rise.

Giro area volunteer fire fighter pleas for better bushfire preparedness

THe Gloucester Advocate interviews VFFA Secretary Greg Godde about his experiences during the Black Summer fires.
Greg says there are 65 kilometre between fire stations at Tibbuc and Nowendoc with nothing but dense bushland in between. For volunteers in the Bretti area, they need to travel away from the fire ground to the shed, then back again.

“It can take 30 to 40 minutes to get from the shed to the fire,” Greg said. “We are pushing to get one built at Giro.”