Fire and Rescue NSW

Fire and Rescue NSW - Prepared for anything.

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is one of the world's largest urban fire and rescue services and is the busiest in Australia. Our overriding purpose is to enhance community safety, quality of life, and confidence by minimising the impact of hazards and emergency incidents on the people, property, environment and economy of NSW.

What you need to know about...

1 June - Smoke alarm action day
Smoke alarms

Be smart and take part - 1st June test your smoke alarm. The seconds you use to test your smoke alarm could be the seconds that save your life. Learn more here.

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Home Safety Visits

A safety visit can assist in helping you reduce the risk of an accidental fire in the home and safely escape in the event of a fire. Click here to request a safety visit.

Lithium-ion batteries: shop, charge, and recycle safely.
Lithium-ion batteries: Shop, charge, and recycle safely

Portable lithium-ion batteries are the fastest growing fire risk. Click here to understand the risks and be prepared.

Emergency contacts

In an emergency call Triple Zero (000)

Bushfire Information: Call the NSW Rural Fire Service: 1800 679 737
www.rfs.nsw.gov.au [external link]

Floods and Storms: Call the SES: 132 500
www.ses.nsw.gov.au [external link]

Latest news and updates

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- Firefighters raise half a million dollars for kids with burn injuries | Westmead

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters and administration staff have raised a record-breaking amount for children who have sustained burn injuries. ‘Firefighters For The Burns Unit Incorporated’, the registered charitable organisation established by FRNSW Firefighters, today presented a cheque for $523,247... Learn more about the - Firefighters raise half a million dollars for kids with burn injuries at Westmead.

access_time 06:58pm • Jun 26, 2025
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WESTMEAD | ***VISION ALERT*** - Firefighters raise half a million dollars for kids with burn injuries. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters and administration staff have raised a record-breaking amount for children who have sustained burn in... View on X [external link]

access_time 04:58pm • Jun 26, 2025
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CARLINGFORD - Leaning Crane. Pennant Hills Road remains closed. Approximately 200 residents from nearby unit blocks have been evacuated as a precaution. Engineers are on site. NO INJURIES REPORTED View on X [external link]

access_time 06:18pm • Jun 25, 2025
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SURRY HILLS - FIRE - all persons have been accounted for. NO injuries reported. Approximately 30 evacuated. Firefighters clearing the building of the toxic smoke from the fire and will commence to investigate where and how the fire started. View on X [external link]

access_time 05:55pm • Jun 25, 2025
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SURRY HILLS - fire on the fourth level in a building on Denham Street has been extinguished. Approximately 36 firefighter on scene, operations supported by Ambulance and Police. Approx 30 people evacuated by firefighters. View on X [external link]

access_time 05:16pm • Jun 25, 2025
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CARLINGFORD - Pennant Hills Road CLOSED both directions. FRNSW crews have responded to reports of a tower crane impacted by high winds. All site workers have been safely evacuated. View on X [external link]

access_time 04:34pm • Jun 25, 2025
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CARLINGFORD - Pennant Hills Road CLOSED both ditections. Construction crane leaning, high winds in the area. Local evacs occuring 1 ni injuries reported View on X [external link]

access_time 04:23pm • Jun 25, 2025
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ST MARYS - Car fire on the east bound off ramp of the M4 onto Mamre Rd. Fire and Rescue NSW, Rural Fire Service and Police on scene. Traffic impacted. View on X [external link]

access_time 01:32pm • Jun 25, 2025
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MULGOA - FRNSW has cut a person out of the wreckage of the two truck crash on Mulgoa Road. NSW Ambulance helicopter on scene with NSW Police and Rural Fire Service. Traffic impacted. Drive Carefully it does not take much to end up injured or worse. View on X [external link]

access_time 02:14pm • Jun 24, 2025
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MULGOA Crash Update - Fire and Rescue NSW has cut away some of the vehicle to allow better access to Paramedics. Operations continuing, Mulgoa Road and St Thomas Street traffic impacted, avoid, monitor live traffic. More to follow View on X [external link]

access_time 01:47pm • Jun 24, 2025
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MULGOA - Fire and Rescue NSW rescue trucks on scene of a truck crash, one person trapped in the wreckage. Paramedics treating FRNSW developing a rescue plan which may require the vehicles to be cut and rammed apart.. View on X [external link]

access_time 01:32pm • Jun 24, 2025
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LALOR PARK - Car alight on Parkside Drive near Burked Road on truck on scene. View on X [external link]

access_time 07:05am • Jun 23, 2025
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Long Jetty - Update 1 - fire had occurred in a shop - Police in attendance - FRNSW ventilating - no injuries reported at this stage. View on X [external link]

access_time 06:48am • Jun 23, 2025
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LONG JETTY (Central Coast_ - FRNSW responding to reports of a building on fire on Pacific Street and The Entrance Road - more to follow View on X [external link]

access_time 06:33am • Jun 23, 2025
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Fire and Rescue NSW identifies people most at risk of a home fire this winter | NSW

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has identified the people most at risk of a residential fire this winter. FRNSW’s Community Safety Command has crunched the numbers and created a profile of those most vulnerable. If you meet one or more of the... Learn more about the Fire and Rescue NSW identifies people most at risk of a home fire this winter at NSW.

access_time 02:08pm • Jun 20, 2025
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