The NSW RFS Boeing 737 air tanker, the Marie Bashir, is currently on secondment fighting fires in North America. Photo: stock NSW is to spend almost $100 million on firefighting capital works, including new trucks, under the 2025-26 state budget. Included in the budget’s $98.7m allocation for emergency services capital works will be the first…
The flooded property about 10km outside Kempsey, NSW. Photo: Fire and Rescue NSW A drone showed the way to safety for a rescue crew, farming couple and six dogs through 2km of flooded bush at night near Kempsey, NSW. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) says the drama began on Friday afternoon when Strike Team Charlie…
All dressed up outside Taree Fire Station for Saturday’s centenary commemoration. All photos: FRNSW Taree’s fire station turned 100 years old and firefighting brass joined local VIPs to help the NSW town celebrate the milestone. The station is also home to two of Fire and Rescue NSW’s longer-serving regional firefighters: Station Officer Peter Willard (45…
A view of the fire at the St Marys plant in western Sydney which used a ‘sniffer’ drone. Image: FRNSW Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is now using a drone that can ‘sniff’ out airborne threats like dangerous gas. The smelling drone was successfully used at a major chemical fire at a waste recycling plant…
The bedroom where the e-bike was charging. Photo: FRNSW NSW retailers of lithium-ion powered e-scooters, e-bikes and other ‘e-vehicles’ now have to supply safety warnings to customers. The requirement is one of two introduced by the NSW Government to reduce the risks of lithium-ion batteries, which are being linked to more fires. Fire and Rescue…
One of the drones that was used by firefighters at the St Marys factory. Photo: FRNSW Drones have helped Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews to put out a major chemical fire at a waste facility in western Sydney. A large fire broke out at the recycling plant in Christie Street, St Marys, around 1.45pm…
A house at Mudgee, central-west NSW, after a live power pole fell onto it during last week’s storms. Fire crews prevented it from spreading but couldn’t save the building, according to Fire and Rescue NSW. Photo: FRNSW. Power has now been restored to about 300,000 homes, businesses and other properties in NSW which blacked out…
One of the new boats that are being rolled out across NSW. Picture: FRNSW THE NSW Government is rolling out 19 new HAZMAT boats worth $1.58 million to Fire and Rescue NSW units across the state. The hazardous materials (HAZMAT) boats are to contain oil, diesel and other pollutant spills in rivers and lakes. Each…