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Santa swaps sleigh for fire truck

The Mount Maurice Rural Fire Brigade spread joy threw the streets during their annual Santa run.

25th Dec. 2020 12:12 AM

Santa has taken a ride around town in the Mount Maurice Rural Fire Brigade trucks on December 24, 2020. Photo: Liana Walker

Fireys, barred from fighting fires, spark election row

A rural fire brigade, which has no fire truck, no paid fire fighters and no shed, is at the centre of a major election...

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23rd Sept. 2020 10:09 AM

A fire at Mount Cotton late last year was attended to by the QFES brigade from Redland Bay.

Election row sparked over fireys barred from fighting fires

A rural fire brigade, which has no fire truck, no paid fire fighters and no shed, is at the centre of a major election...

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23rd Sept. 2020 7:09 AM

Mt Cotton Rural Fire Brigade volunteers reignite election stoush

Expansion plans for firies supporting raceway approved

A development application to construct a new building has been given the green light by Ipswich City Council. Here are the...

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04th Feb. 2020 10:02 AM

Plans to expand the the facilities of Mount Forbes Rural Fire Brigade have been approved.

Adelaide Park firey calls for more help

Mark White would like to see compensation for fireys from all walks of life.

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21st Dec. 2019 12:12 AM

SPEAKING OUT: Adelaide Park Rural Fire Brigade Second officer Mark White says there's financial strain created by a range of expenses incurred by firefighting volunteers.

Visit from Santa ‘up in smoke’ as crews remain on high alert

For the second year in a row, the volatile, dangerous fire season has come between one town’s residents and a meeting Santa...

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19th Dec. 2019 6:12 AM

SANTA CANCELLED: Summerholm Hatton Vale Rural Fire Brigade first offer Jamie Reside.

Fire starts at tyre, rapidly spreads to trailer of hay

The inferno ignited on the highway and when the driver pulled over it spread to the ground vegetation.

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03rd Dec. 2019 12:12 PM

A ute and trailer of hay caught on fire on Capricorn Hwy near Gogango on Monday. A car had been rubbing against a mudguard causing it to combust into flames and the fire spread to the load of hay.

Inside the fire zone from a ‘humble’ volunteer

‘I know that what we do has an element of risk and there is always the potential for something to go wrong, but … we always...

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13th Nov. 2019 9:11 AM

BRAVE: Volunteer rural firefighter watering what remains of a blaze that tore through Cooroibah. Picture: QFES

Industrial fire northwest of Toowoomba

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Acting Superintendent Paul Evans

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12th Nov. 2019 3:11 PM

’Disbelief’: QFES deregisters fire brigade

An audit found the brigade no longer able to provide effective, safe and sustainable fire and emergency service.

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05th Nov. 2019 5:11 AM

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