Weekly Newsletter - 20th January 2021

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Date: 23rd January - 29th January

• First Call: Crew B
• Second Call: Crew A

Called to assist Mundaring VFRS at a scrub fire on Atkins Rd. 10ha burnt in previously burnt area, with control eventually handed to DBCA.

Attended by Dave R., John R., Michelle, Tracey, and Warren.

Received request for crews to join Strike Team attending the King Rd incident in Oakford. Crew met Strike Team at Swan Emergency Services Centre before deploying to King Road. Following a delay the crew eventually completed a shift mopping up and patrolling the incident.

Attended by Chad, Dave R., Dave W., Sarah, and Tracey.

Shire of Mundaring has publicly thanked the volunteers of the Mundaring Bushfire Service for their efforts over the past weeks, with a post to their Facebook page.

🙌🚒SHOUT OUT SATURDAY 🚒🙌

We want to take a quick moment to show our appreciation and thank all the firefighters and volunteers who help keep our community safe. Just over a week into the new year and the shire has seen a couple of big bushfires. Crews have done an incredible job at keeping homes, friends, family and livestock safe. So we just want to say THANK YOU. Not missing a beat and putting themselves in dangerous situations proves they are true local heroes. Want to show your appreciation? Comment below your message to all the vollies and firefighters in the shire.

Along with 154 “likes”, the following comments were left by members of the public in response to the post:

• Thanks to all our Fantastic Firies - legends!
• Thanks to all our volunteer emergency services and their families
• You are amazing!
• You are all amazing. Thank you for everything you do.
• Thanks to the small but mighty crew at the Wooroloo station, you do a great job…!!
• Thank you EVER so much you are true legends in my mind. You all do a fabulous job
• Thank you to our firies and their families- you have worked in stifling conditions to save our bush and communities
• Thank you so much you amazing lot. I know that living in the hills is so much safer knowing you are there. And it must have been made incredibly more difficult in the incredible heat conditions
• Thanks vollies, we appreciate you so much!
• Thank you all
• Thank you vollies and let us not forget the families supporting them and waiting for them to return home tired and exhausted 👏
• Huge thanks to everyone involved, you are very much appreciated in our home
• So grateful - amazing job.
• Thank you all crews for being true hero’s in keeping our community safe!
• Hats off to you all…..thank you
• Thank you for all you do for our community, it’s much appreciated.

• Operations Doctrine Monthly Bulletin: December 2020

The 2021 Calendar for the Mundaring Fire Fighters School is attached. Please take some time to review the courses offered and consider which may be undertaken this coming year.

Additionally, dates for the Incident Management Group training sessions are included in the calendar. Anyone interested in starting out in Incident Management should consider participating in the IMG training sessions.

If you have any questions, please contact Ben or Adrian.

No updates.

• Saturday 23rd: Training - Off-road driving, 09:30 at the Station
• Monday 25th: Monthly Brigade Meeting, 19:30 at the Station
• Tuesday 26th: Weekly vehicle checks, 19:30 at the Station

• ABC News: One year on from South Australia's bushfire crisis, is the state any more prepared?
• ABC News: Bushfires help Christmas bells thrive, study says, but climate change could threaten their future
• ABC News: Bushfire warning downgraded for Gingin, north of Perth