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A stalwart of Oberon Fire Station, Firefighter Peter Ryan, is celebrating 60 years of continuous service with Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW). The service marked the occasion with a barbecue at the station on Monday night, with Commissioner, Jeremy Fewtrell,... Learn more about the Firefighter honoured for extraordinary 60 years’ continuous service at Oberon.

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews have extinguished a building fire at Charlottes Pass in the NSW snowfields. The emergency occurred around 6.30 this morning when flames took hold of a sewage treatment plant, housed in a two-level building, near Mount... Learn more about the Firefighters douse blaze in NSW Snowfields - Video at Charlottes Pass.

Nineteen teams of first responders will put their skills to the test in a multi-agency ‘Road Crash Rescue Challenge’ in Dubbo next weekend. The State Road Crash Rescue Challenge is a two-day event that provides frontline emergency workers with the... Learn more about the First responders to test their road crash rescue skills in multi-agency competition at Dubbo.

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) hazardous materials (HAZMAT) experts and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority have successfully conducted a specialist training exercise on board a bulk container ship at Port Botany in Sydney. The firefighters, from FRNSW’s HAZMAT-qualified station at Alexandria,... Learn more about the Fire and Rescue ‘HAZMAT’ crews complete dangerous substance exercise on bulk tanker at Port Botany.

Fire protection in the state’s North-west Slopes has been bolstered with the arrival of a new Bushfire Tanker. Valued at $450,000, the Category One tanker is the latest of 34 new appliances funded by the NSW Government after the devastating 2019/20... Learn more about the New Bushfire Tanker for North-west Slopes at Narrabri.

In the lead up to National Volunteer Week (20-26 May), and to celebrate 30 years of its Community Fire Units (CFU) program, Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has unveiled a new uniform for its dedicated members. The new uniform is in... Learn more about the FRNSW CFU’S CELEBRATE 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH NEW UNIFORM AS PART OF NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK at Penrith.

A new, state-of-the-art Bushfire Tanker has arrived in Goulburn to protect the communities of the state’s Southern Tablelands. Valued at $450,000, the Category One tanker is the latest of 34 new appliances funded by the NSW Government after the devastating 2019/20... Learn more about the Latest Bushfire Tanker headed to Southern Tablelands at Goulburn.

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews have detailed their rescue of a pet dog after it fell down an embankment near Wilton, in Sydney’s south-west. When they arrived at Maldon Bridge Road at roughly 5pm last Friday (10 May), firefighters... Learn more about the [] Firefighters rescue dog, trapped down embankment at Wilton.

The owners of a motorcycle dealer and repair shop have paid a visit to firefighters who saved their business from a devastating blaze in Brookvale, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Around 9:30pm on 8 May, more than 60 firefighters responded to... Learn more about the Family thanks Dee Why firefighters for saving business from Brookvale inferno at Dee Why.

The wet weather did not deter the crowds from attending Fire and Rescue NSW’s Open Day at the Museum of Fire in Penrith today. Hit animated preschool property, PAW Patrol, from Nickelodeon and Spin Master Entertainment, entertained the kids and helped... Learn more about the FRNSW OPEN DAY AT PENRITH DRAWS THE CROWDS at Penrith.

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters have entered a burning home at Minnamurra, on the state’s south coast, and rescued a pet dog, sheltering under a chair. FRNSW crews from Kiama, Shellharbour and Albion Park responded to the house fire on... Learn more about the Firefighters enter burning home to rescue dog, seeking refuge under chair at Minnamurra.

Firefighters at Grafton have received a new multi-purpose Tanker to handle emergencies in the state’s Northern Rivers. Valued at $660,000, the Mercedes Atego Class 1 Tanker is a “jack of all trades” fire engine. It features a ‘pump and roll’ capability... Learn more about the New multi-purpose fire engine to protect the Northern Rivers at Grafton.