Absolute legend. Firefighting in Australia loses something with him going, but given the stress of the season he just endured, it isn't surprising. And emergency management isn't losing him, just the RFS. His replacement has big boots to fill.
'Nation's father' makes difficult decision to walk away from RFS — but he's not going far
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Shane Fitzsimmons is moving on from his role as NSW Rural Fire Service chief to embark on a new role leading the state's new government disaster agency, Resilience NSW.He has ticked the box and moved on to a new role. Good succession planning is imperative. A perfect leader
Did a great job thanks mate 👍
Good luck and thanks for all you do.
Please help us #StayAtHome. Follow burning restrictions at www.kalamunda.wa.gov.au and take all precautions to ensure your burn is fully extinguished, cold and out by 11pm.
Crews were assisting Kalamunda VFRS with an escaped burn early this morning.
Thanks for the update and the amazing job all Fire fighters do for the community to keep us safe.
Thanks for the fantastic job you all are doing... Blessings always to you all.
Great picture. Keep up the good work.
Doing a job
Restricted burn period proceeds with COVID-19 measures
The City of Kalamunda announced the annual restricted burning period will open as usual between 1 April to 31 May, with special COVID-19 measures in place to protect City staff and the community.
City of Kalamunda CEO Rhonda Hardy said state and federal directions to restrict the spread of COVID-19 required usual operations at this time to be reviewed. City rangers and emergency services staff, along with the community, have to exercise social distancing. It also means that the local Bushfire Brigades are needing to exercise similar caution and are currently not able to undertake on ground mitigation activity.
“Residents will be able to burn 1 meter by 1 meter piles between the hours of 6pm – 11pm, which is part of the normal restricted burning season. However the City will not currently be issuing permits for any other burns.” said Ms Hardy.
“The City trusts residents will be practicing social distancing themselves, and not conducting larger illegal burning. This measure will reduce the amount of 000 calls for fire and in turn reduce exposing our Rangers and Emergency Services staff, along with our amazing community emergency service volunteers.”
Residents are reminded they can only legally burn off a small garden refuse pile (1m x 1m x 1m) between 6pm and 11pm – without a permit to burn if the Fire Danger Rating is not Very High or above; Running water must be on hand and able to extinguish fire past the pile; All piles are fully extinguished by midnight and checked the next day. Additional appropriate firebreaks or hazard reductions around the burn area are required and residents should ensure all neighbours are notified, and an adult attends the fire at all times.
The Walliston transfer Station remains open, and green waste is free and unlimited for residents. Skip Bins are also free and available. All available mechanisms should be utilised in property preparedness activities being undertaken between now and the next fire season.
For more information please contact the City of Kalamunda on 9257 9999, email enquiries@kalamunda.wa.gov.au or visit kalamunda.wa.gov.au
Should they proceed ? Is it safe for them ?
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Photos from The Forever Project's post
Brilliant initiative. Well done guys and girls.
Recruiting has closed for 2020
I’m interested in the incident support team but I do shift work so I can’t make all the dates specified
Keen to join, but I work 8 and 6 FIFO and I'm only rostered off work for the days in April and November🙁
i’m a heavy mobile plant operator loaders dozers and the like are you looking for people with those skills
What time is the info night on the 26th?
What does the incident support team involve?
Hannah Caroline
Brett Ashlin
William Powell
Steve Oldland
Nathan Princep
Caitlyn Turley
Kai Goona Delcaro
Lameck Nyirenda
Tom Logan
Corey Foster get it done.
Sebastian Harrup
Luke Laehcim wanna join your 3rd brigade? 😂
Noelene for Mark
Michaela Breen Michael Breen
This is what it is like to live through a bad bushfire. Do you have a fire plan?
Warning: some scary footage and bad language in these videos.
India started the video not knowing how bad the firestorm would get. Now millions of people know her
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They are the heart-stopping videos that stopped the nation and stunned the world. But who filmed them and how did their stories end?
It was an early start this morning with a small fire in Canning Mills. A fresh crew is now heading to yesterday's fire at Bullsbrook
Thank goodness for the volunteers. 💚💚💚
Sarah Dobson
Thank goodness for Kalamunda
This is what 630m (or 21 individual 30m lengths) looks like after it has been collected from the Lesmurdie Falls fire. Many people don't realise, but 80% of the job of fighting bushfires is mop-up after the flames are out, or making sure every single piece of smouldering material, every burning tree, and log, and ground fire is fully extinguished so they can't start a new fire. For 3 hours of flames on Monday this meant spending the two following days mopping up.
And unfortunately the fire got into the gully below the Falls, and because of the terrain you can't get a fire truck in there, and you can't pump water up from the bottom because there is no water source there. So the only way to mop-up and make the fire ground safe, is to run hose down the gully from the top. This is a massive job, and possibly the worst bit is walking down into the gully to collect all the hose, so it can be brought back to station, washed, made up, and put back on the fire truck, ready for the next fire...
And all this was done by volunteers.
A massive Thankyou to you all for keeping us safe with the tough job you all do 👍🏻 hopefully today’s cooler weather has mad it easier for you. Most people don’t know what goes on with mopping up afterwards. Glad you shared to make people aware. Thankyou for everything you do 🙏🏻
A very BIG THANK YOU to our amazing volunteers. So very much work goes on behind the scenes. It does not stop with the extinguishing of the 🔥
Thank you all, for volunteering and keeping us safe.
Thanks for this post because I - like a few others, I suspect - had no idea what the mopping up entails. Or all that hose! Wowsers. Thank you again for all you do. 🙌
Thank you to all the VFS people. Very grateful for what you do. 🙏🙏🙏
Was good working with your crews on this fire inparticular the guys mopping up off of the walk trail in the evening. I am a crew leader from Parks and Wildlife. Team work makes the dream work.
Brilliant work Guys. But think yourselves lucky, in the old days, you'd wrap up on the fireground then unwrap back at station to hang the canvas hoses up the tower to dry. I was in service on the changeover. Believe me life became so much easier. Saying that you guys are brilliant, so proud of what you are doing for your community.
Thank you! Your work is so appreciated 🙂
Thank you your work and effort are very much appreciated
Thank you for your fantastic work. Having drained, rolled and flaked hose almost daily myself when at sea I appreciate the tough work you have done.
Thank you for your hard work from the USA! I’m over here praying for you all and for much needed rain to come. 💗
Thank you volunteers for the awesome work!!!
Well done! We thank you so very much for your service 🙏🙏❤❤
Big big massive thankyou to all our volunteer fire fighters ,🥵🥵❣️❣️❣️
Thank you for all the hard work you guys and gals put in not to mention putting your lives at risk ❣❣❣❣❣
Thank you to our treasured volunteers.
Absolutely amazing work guys and girls ,forever in your debt 👍🍻
Great post guys, very informative, stay safe and keep up the good work👍
Mop up sucks the big ones but needs to be done. Great work by all 👏👏
Amazing you just don't realise how much they do, we thank you.
You guys are the best. A BIG thank you to you all 🥰
Thank you all so much for volunteering your time and efforts!
Always good work firies, we thank you 👏
Great work guys and gals. You do us all proud to be volunteers in this luck country we call home.
Thank you for keeping us all safe!