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Rural Fire Service can mean any of the following: In Australia: Australian Capital Territory Rural Fire Service; New South Wales Rural Fire Service; The Rural Fire Service Queensland is a part of the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services
Rural Fire Board 1948–1990; Rural Fire Service Queensland 1990–present; The first Rural Fire Board was established in 1927 with the Rural Fires Act of 1927 (Qld), and suspended in 1931 due to the Great Depression. The boards were re-established in 1948, and merged with the Department of Emergency Services in 1990, becoming the Rural Fire ...
The Lower Beechmont Rural Fire Brigade is at 2 Mirani Street It was established in 1986 to protect the local community from the threat of bushfire. It is made up of local volunteer firefighters and is a member of the Rural Fire Service Queensland .
In October 2022, following a review by State Disaster Co-ordinator Steve Gollschewski, it was announced that the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services would be dissolved in June 2024, resulting in the largest reform of emergency services in Queensland since 1990. The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service along with the Rural Fire Service would ...
The SES is a volunteer-based community-located emergency support service, providing emergency and rescue services in times of natural disasters, and other emergencies. [11] The main roles are preparing for, and responding to different type of emergencies and disasters from a local level to a national disaster much like the 2010–2011 ...
[24] [25] The unreliable water supply is a concern for the local rural fire brigade and many property owners are reliant on dams and bore water. [ 26 ] Following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions at the beginning of May 2020, an Alton Downs grazier opened his large sunflower field to the public who were able to purchase sunflower heads in ...
Childers has its own courthouse. The town has several emergency service faculties including a police station, ambulance station and fire station housing Fire and Rescue Queensland Staff and Queensland Rural Fire Service volunteers. It also hosts a branch of the State Emergency Service and PCYC Emergency Services Cadets program. [citation needed]
Remote Area Firefighting Team (RAFT) personnel are members of a number of Australian fire services, including the Queensland RURAL Fire Service, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service [1] and the ACT Rural Fire service who are particularly effective for work in rugged, isolated areas that firefighting tankers can’t access by road.