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...
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.
Portable lithium-ion batteries are the fastest growing fire risk. Click here to understand the risks and be prepared.
Want to become an on-call firefighter? Learn more about joining the team that's prepared for anything.
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
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters are on scene at a house fire in Emu Heights, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Just after 4am this morning, more than 40 firefighters and ten fire trucks, including an aerial ladder... Learn more about the Home destroyed by fire at Emu Heights.
EMU HEIGHTS | ***VISION ALERT*** Home destroyed by fire. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters are on scene at a house fire in Emu Heights, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Just after 4am this morning, more than 40 firefighters and ten fi... View on X [external link]
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters have extinguished a blaze that has caused severe damage to a three-level unit complex in Whalan, in Sydney's west, overnight. Just after 9,45pm, more than 28 firefighters and nine fire trucks, responded to multiple... Learn more about the Unit complex damaged by blaze at Whalan.
WHALAN | Unit complex damaged by blaze. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters have extinguished a blaze that has caused severe damage to a three-level unit complex in Whalan, in Sydney's west, overnight. Just after 9,45pm, more than 28 fire... View on X [external link]
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has demonstrated its extensive firefighting capabilities, responding to multiple significant fires across Sydney overnight, the largest of which was a major factory blaze in Revesby. More than 100 firefighters and 25 fire trucks, including multiple... Learn more about the *** VISION ALERT*** Major factory fire and multiple blazes contained overnight at Sydney.
SYDNEY | *** VISION ALERT*** Major factory fire and multiple blazes contained overnight. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has demonstrated its extensive firefighting capabilities, responding to multiple significant fires across Sydney overnight, the... View on X [external link]
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) investigators are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that's killed a woman and child overnight at Heckenberg, in Sydney's south-west. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) received numerous Triple Zero (000) calls about the... Learn more about the Woman and child die in house fire at Heckenberg.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) investigators are focusing on a charging e-bike battery as the cause of a fatal house fire this morning at Guildford in Sydney's west. FRNSW crews have confirmed there were no working smoke alarms in the Rowley... Learn more about the *** ALERT - E-bike battery at the centre of fatal house fire investigation at Guildford.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is seeking to attract a new generation of first responders in the region, taking to the streets of Broken Hill to recruit for local on-call firefighters. The isolated community, which is home to around 17,000 people,... Learn more about the Fire and Rescue NSW seeking the next generation of firefighters at Broken Hill.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) believe a lithium-ion battery caused a house fire at Umina on the Central Coast overnight, which left a man seriously injured with burns and two others suffering from smoke inhalation. Three fire trucks and 12 firefighters... Learn more about the Lithium-ion battery fire results in man being airlifted to hospital at Umina.
Accidental home fires can catch people unawares. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is urging the community to prepare a home escape plan so that families can escape safely should a fire occur. Having a home escape plan in conjunction with a... Learn more about the Be Fire Safe - know your escape plan! at .
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is currently on scene monitoring a partial wall collapse in Fairfield, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of residents from a high-rise residential building and children from a neighbouring primary school. Just before 1.15 pm, firefighters were... Learn more about the Several hundred evacuated with partial wall collapse at Fairfield.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews have extinguished a fire in a large two-storey home in East Killara in Sydney’s Upper North Shore earlier today. Around 11.15am, six trucks and 22 firefighters responded to the blaze in Koola Avenue after reports... Learn more about the Fire causes damage to two-storey home at Killara.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has heralded the Lunar New Year with a special Chinese Lion Dance at the nation’s busiest fire station. FRNSW Commissioner, Jeremy Fewtrell, his executive team and the crew from 001 City of Sydney station welcomed the... Learn more about the ***VISION ALERT: Special Chinese Lion Dance to promote happiness and prosperity at nation’s busiest fire station at Sydney.
SYDNEY | ***VISION ALERT: Special Chinese Lion Dance to promote happiness and prosperity at nations busiest fire station. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has heralded the Lunar New Year with a special Chinese Lion Dance at the nations busiest fire... View on X [external link]