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Presenting Fire Wise Kids now live on the Learning Hub

The Community Engagement team is pleased to announce the release of Presenting Fire Wise Kids on the Learning Hub.

22 Oct 2025 Community Safety Training and Recruitment

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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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Spotting fake messages and account deactivation issues on Meta platforms

In the past 12 months we have seen an increase in the number of fake messages, emails and comments on CFA Meta channels – these include Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

28 Feb 2025 Health and Safety Others People

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CFA and Ambulance Victoria launch life-saving program

Nine CFA brigades are trained and ready to respond to select medical Triple Zero calls as part of a new program that will officially commence on 27 November.

13 Nov 2024 Community Safety Incidents - Others Others

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CFA at the Langwarrin Disability Expo

Three CFA Langwarrin Fire Brigade members, and CFA Community Engagement Adviser Tim Marchinton, attended the Langwarrin Disability Expo on Saturday 26 October 2024.

6 Nov 2024 Community Safety

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New fire season resources to prepare the community

CFA is providing new materials and resources for its brigades and members to make sure they and the community are prepared for the summer season.

30 Oct 2024 Community Safety

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Enhancing fire safety and burns prevention in young children

Young children aged 0 to 4 years old are still overrepresented in home fire fatalities and burn injuries across Australia.

23 Aug 2024 Community Safety Partnerships

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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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A valid reason to talk to people who have a disability

People with a disability have a much higher risk of injury in a house fire. Did you know that more than 60 per cent of people who die in house fires have a disability?

6 Feb 2024 Community Safety Partnerships

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2024 Government House Open Day

Join us on Friday 26 January 2024, at Government House Victoria for the annual Open Day event.

22 Jan 2024 Community Safety Events / Fundraising / Offers

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Getting through summer safely

Summer is upon us and most of us will be spending more time outdoors. CFA can help keep you safe over the summer season and help you to look after your health now and in the future.

1 Dec 2023 Community Safety

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World Diabetes Day

Did you know about 422 million people worldwide have diabetes, and 1.5 million deaths are directly caused by diabetes each year?

14 Nov 2023 Community Safety

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World Stroke Day

A stroke could happen to anyone, anytime, including to our members on the fireground, during training activities, while working as part of an incident management team, in an office environment or whil ...

29 Oct 2023 Community Safety

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National Nutrition Week

Life can get busy. And it when it gets busy, between meeting your volunteering commitments, family, work and general ‘life admin’, often the first thing to suffer is our eating habits.

15 Oct 2023 Health and Safety

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World Heart Day

World Heart Day is on 29 September. The day celebrates the heart, heart health and focuses our attention on what we can do to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) and encourages individuals to take con ...

29 Sep 2023 Community Safety

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Reducing the risk of fire and other emergencies to those at highest risk

CFA, Australian Red Cross and City of Frankston have partnered to pilot a new fire and emergency planning household service.

25 Sep 2023 Community Safety Partnerships

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Mallacoota's road to recovery

Impacted by the 2019-2020 bushfires, Mallacoota is now seeing a strong recovery with community members playing a big part in its renewal.

9 Sep 2023 Community Safety Incidents - Bushfire People

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Women's Health Week

Women are performing more roles at CFA than ever before, with many women being elected as brigade captains this year.

4 Sep 2023 Community Safety Health and Safety

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Asthma Week 2023

This year Asthma Week runs from 1 September to 7 September and Asthma Australia is focusing at how our homes can worsen asthma symptoms.

1 Sep 2023 Community Safety

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Healthy Bones Action Week

Depending on your role and activities in CFA, you may be required to undertake manual handling, get in and out of vehicles or carry out vigorous firefighting.

21 Aug 2023 Community Safety Health and Safety

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September Step Challenge CFA Team Exercise Challenge 2023

We are excited to announce that CFA’s Team Exercise Challenge STEPtember is back.

7 Aug 2023 Community Safety

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Have Your Say - new Children's Fire Safety Education Program in development

CFA's well-loved Fire Safe Kids program was developed in 2011. Now it's time for a new chapter in children's fire safety education.

24 Jul 2023 Community Safety

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Feedback on updated Working with Children Clearance Policy: deadline approaching

We appreciate the feedback that has been received from many members on the updated Working with Children Clearance Policy. Your input is very important and helps inform the changes proposed under the ...

20 Jul 2023 Community Safety Health and Safety Others

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