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The organisation has a substantial history dating back well over 100 years to the establishment of Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1884, and the New South Wales Fire Brigades in 1910. [4] The organisation is led by the Commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW, Jeremy Fewtrell, appointed on the 30th of October, 2023. [5]
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) is a volunteer-based firefighting agency and statutory body of the Government of New South Wales.. The NSW RFS is responsible for fire protection to approximately 95% of the land area of New South Wales and the Jervis Bay Territory, while urban areas and over 90% of the population are the responsibility of Fire and Rescue NSW.
The NSW Rural Fire Service Association (RFSA) is the official representative body for the volunteers and staff of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, which is the World's largest volunteer firefighting organisation.
Fire and Rescue NSW maintains 600 CFUs and more than 7,000 volunteer members across metropolitan and regional NSW. [1] A few NSW Rural Fire Service Brigades also maintain their own CFUs. Members of these CFUs are also members of the specific rural fire brigade. They are trained in basic fire safety and fighting and who can assist the Fire ...
The Gowrie Brigade of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service was established in 1965 with the inaugural meeting on Wednesday 17 February 1965 and supported by the then Peel Shire Council. The Gowrie Brigade remains active with volunteers drawn from the district.
The brigade also supplied several crews and specialist equipment to assist during the 2003 Canberra bushfires which caused damage to the outskirts of Canberra, the Australian capital city. The brigade is a participant in the New South Wales Rural Fire Service FireWise program. The brigade has two fire fighting appliances as well as a personnel ...
The Bargo Rural Fire Brigade is a unit of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service that services the local Bargo and Wollondilly Shire community in New South Wales, Australia. The brigade provides help to return normality to residents and visitors of the Wollondilly Shire in cases of bush fire .
The NSW SES also assist other emergency services when they are performing major operations. These services include the New South Wales Police Force, NSW Rural Fire Service, Fire and Rescue NSW and New South Wales Ambulance. During the 22/23 Financial Year, NSW SES Personnel answered 113,722 calls at the State Operations Centre.