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CFA celebrates Youth Fest

September not only marks the start of spring, it also marks Youth Fest, an annual celebration that champions young people and amplifies their voices.

4 Sep 2025 Events / Fundraising / Offers Inclusion and Fairness Youth and Juniors

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Colac HQ seeks support volunteers

CFA’s District 6 Headquarters Brigade is calling for new volunteers to help with support roles in the area.

26 Jun 2025 Incidents - Bushfire People Training and Recruitment

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Blue pants mark an era of inclusion for Werribee women runners

Werribee Fire Brigade has made a small but significant change to their championships running uniforms, moving away from the traditional white running pants to a matching blue pant.

10 Apr 2025 Events / Fundraising / Offers People Youth and Juniors

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New children's programs coming soon

CFA's new children's offerings are nearly here.

4 Apr 2025 Community Safety Training and Recruitment

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Staff profile: Meet Raya Darcy

Raya Darcy is a Program Designer in the Training Design and Development team.

5 Feb 2025 Training and Recruitment

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Joint FRV and CFA training strengthens wildfire response

On Thursday 19 December, firefighters from Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) and CFA Hoppers Crossing Fire Brigade came together at Derrimut Fire Station for a combined drill to enhance operational effective ...

20 Dec 2024 Others Partnerships Training and Recruitment

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Aviation fire response put to the test

Members from Hume Group have attended a joint training session with Aviation Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) to test interoperability for an incident at Melbourne Airport.

10 Oct 2024 Operational Information Training and Recruitment

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New recruitment photos available now

More than 150 new images of volunteers in different locations and engaged in various activities have been added to the CFA Digital Library for use in volunteer recruitment campaigns.

9 Aug 2024 Training and Recruitment

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Fireline leadership returns to CFA

As part of OD&T’s development of sector commander and crew leader courses, we have been investigating options to offer operational leadership elements as optional training for our fireground lea ...

5 Aug 2024 Training and Recruitment

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Certificate IV in Leadership and Management course for volunteers to launch in June

The VLD team received 149 Expressions of Interest from dedicated volunteers across all five regions.

13 Jun 2024 Others People Training and Recruitment

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Teens hone skills at CFA Cadet Camp

Teenagers from across the state honed their firefighting skills during the recent CFA Cadet Camp.

5 Jun 2024 Training and Recruitment Youth and Juniors

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Newly updated home fire safety e-learning module for people at higher risk

The ‘Prevent Detect Escape: Home Fire Safety for people at higher risk’ e-learning module has just been updated and is now available.

24 May 2024 Community Safety Training and Recruitment

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Women of Plenty Rescue

Plenty Fire Brigade is a busy CFA rescue brigade 21 kilometres north-east of Melbourne's CBD and women play a full and vital role in the brigade's life-saving work.

3 May 2024 People Training and Recruitment

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New eLearning module on valuing our volunteers

The ‘Valuing our Volunteers – Bringing our narrative to life’ eLearning module has valuable insights about CFA's volunteers.

13 Mar 2024 Others Training and Recruitment

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State Firefighter Championships set to kick off

Hundreds of firefighters are once again gearing up to compete in this year’s CFA/VFBV State Firefighter Championships over the next two weeks.

12 Mar 2024 Events / Fundraising / Offers People Youth and Juniors

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Multi-agency exercise to prepare for fire season

A CFA-led, multi-agency emergency simulation exercise was undertaken at the Sunshine SES Incident Control Centre (ICC) yesterday, 21 November.

22 Nov 2023 Partnerships Training and Recruitment

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Junior leaders share, develop and learn at the 2023 Forum

Lady Northcote Discovery Camp in Glenmore hosted the 2023 Junior Leader Forum on 21-22 October 2023.

27 Oct 2023 Inclusion and Fairness People Youth and Juniors

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Successful TEWT at Diamond Creek

Diamond Creek’s Brigade Management Team (BMT) recently conducted a desktop Tactical Exercise Without Troops (TEWT).

6 Oct 2023 Training and Recruitment

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Forum showcases key Pre-Season Briefing detail

Understand the key information contained in the 2023-24 Pre-Season briefing by watching the September Volunteer Forum from Hoppers Crossing Fire Station.

27 Sep 2023 Operational Information People Training and Recruitment

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Melton multi-agency exercise success

The Melton community witnessed some commotion on Sunday 20 August with a response of more than 16 fire trucks to a structure fire. Fortunately it was just a training exercise.

21 Aug 2023 Partnerships Training and Recruitment

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Structural Fire Investigation Course

The Structural and Vehicle Fire Investigation course was recently conducted at the purpose-built fire investigation training facility at VEMTC Huntly training campus.

17 Jul 2023 Operational Information Training and Recruitment

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Grizzly bears and wolverines at the June 2023 Volunteer Forum

One of the highlights from this month's Volunteer Forum was a live cross to Canada when the unlikely topic of grizzly bears and wolverines was discussed.

28 Jun 2023 Honours and Awards Events / Fundraising / Offers Training and Recruitment

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