Coffs Coast Advocate

Hazard reduction burn to protect small community

Smoke may be visible across the region.

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07th July 2020 12:07 PM

Hazard reduction burning will take place today at Jagun Nature Reserve, Valla Beach, weather permitting.

Emergency water access sites to be built across the region

Sites will be built across the region including Nana Glen, Moonee, Upper Corindi, Bucca and Bonville.

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21st May 2020 3:05 PM

Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan with Coffs Harbour City Council Mayor Denise Knight at the Nana Glen RFS.

Truck fire on highway threatened sugar mill

THE driver of a prime mover towing two trailers on the Pacific Hwy only found out his truck was on fire thanks to a passing...

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20th May 2020 10:05 AM

Truck fire at Broadwater on May 20, 2020. Photo: captain Ralph Lohse fire +rescue

NYMBOIDA: ‘From then on, it just turned to mayhem’

SIX MONTHS ON: Scott Campbell was the RFS commander on the fire ground when all hell broke loose at Nymboida on November 8...

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08th May 2020 10:05 AM

Lawrence Rural Fire Service Captain Scott Campbell reflects on that fateful night on Friday, 8th November, 2019 as the chief commander on the fireground at Nymboida six months ago today.

Family resilience in the face of tragedy

The Ramos family may have lost their home in the Nymboida blaze, but they never lost their resilience in the face of...

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08th May 2020 3:05 AM

Sophie, Emmanuelle, Oliver and Daniel Ramos at Deosa Wholefoods, on Prince St.

COVID-19 disrupts training for record number of RFS recruits

NUMBERS in the volunteer service could swell by 50 per cent next season. But adequate training is proving difficult during...

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08th May 2020 1:05 AM

RFS crews working hard to find all the hotspots at the Shark Creek Fire near Tyndale.

Firies grapple with the mental aftermath of disaster

‘SOME people just want to completely want to forget about it. But there’s different ways of dealing with it.’

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08th May 2020 12:05 AM

OMINOUS GLOW: The Liberation Trail bushfire from the Armidale Rd looking west towards Boundary Creek Rd as it approached Nymboida on the afternoon of November 8, 2019. Photo: Lawrence RFS Captain Scott Campbell

OPEN AND DIRECT: Firies earned respect from the top down

HOW an entire organisation based on volunteers got the job done in its greatest time of need.

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07th May 2020 10:05 AM

OPEN AND DIRECT: Shane Fitzsimmons was Commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service for 13 summers before his new appointment as NSW Commissioner of Resilience. Photo: AAP Image/Joel Carrett

WHAT A YEAR: Local fireys recognised in state award

“IT MEANS a great deal to them to be recognised by the commissioner, considering the year we’ve had.”

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06th May 2020 2:05 PM

Superintendent David Cook (District Manager), Group Officer Michael Cooper, Group Officer Kenneth (Mark) Eglington, Group Officer Robert Graham, Inspector Matthew Inwood, Group Captain Franco Zambelli, Inspector Angela Daly, Deputy Group Captain Raymond Collyer.

NSW RFS boss to head new resilience agency

The man who led NSW's response to the summer's devastating bushfires, Shane Fitzsimmons, will be appointed to an agency to...

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06th April 2020 6:04 PM

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