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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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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CFA partners with Waverley Social Enterprises for radio rollout

As part of the radio replacement program, CFA has struck up a partnership with Waverley Social Enterprises to refit and repackage over 1,600 of its bag radios.

14 Oct 2024 Partnerships

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CFA survey to help training practices

On 3 May 2023 Operational Doctrine and Training will distribute two surveys: one to randomly selected members who have participated in nationally recognised training in the past 12 months, and one to ...

1 May 2023 Training and Recruitment

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Reaching out to people with a disability – The Melbourne Disability Expo

“Why are the fire services here?” was often the first question at the CFA and FRV stall at the Melbourne Disability Expo (25-26 November 2022).

29 Nov 2022 Community Safety Partnerships

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Busy life balanced by self-care for Moe firefighter

Women’s Health Week runs from 6 - 10 September and focuses on encouraging women to ensure they are setting aside time for their own health and wellbeing.

6 Sep 2021 Health and Safety People

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