General news

The NSW Rural Fire Service has paid tribute to volunteer firefighter Paul Sanderson, who has died while fighting a bush fire at Stanford Merthyr near Cessnock.

The increasing role of women in leadership functions has been highlighted recently, from brigade level to senior management.

Sharing experiences of bush fire can be powerful. Let us know your story and help us help the community to prepare.

'Thor', the C130 waterbomber, has been deployed to Indonesia to assist with fighting wild fires which are causing significant smoke issues across Indonesia.

NSW firefighters will be assisted by a number of new aicraft this bush fire season.

"I Am Fire" is the theme of a new bush fire public awareness campaign launched by the NSW RFS.

Saturday 1 August 2015 marks the start of the 2015-16 bush fire period for seven local government areas in the north of NSW.

A welcome reprieveThe 2014/15 fire season began early in August 2014 and ended in late March 2015.This article appears in the Bush Fire Bulletin Volume 37 No 2. Subscribe for free by emailing: bush.fire.bulletin@rfs.nsw.gov.au or view on the Bush Fire Bulletin page.

More than 100 Australian firefighters have travelled to Canada to help fight large and destructive wildfires.

This issue of the Bush Fire Bulletin wraps up of the 2014/15 fire season, examines some key leadership challenges and shows technologies taking bush firefighting into the future.