General news

High temperatures are forecast across NSW meaning an increased fire danger. This page will help you stay up to date and beat the heat.

Due to an increased risk of fire today (Friday 14 November), the NSW RFS is strongly urging farmers in a number of areas to cease harvesting.

The Eumungerie Rural Fire Brigade, north of Dubbo will be celebrating its 70th birthday on Saturday 15 November, 2014.

Think a bush fire won't happen to you? Don't gamble on it.

The NSW Rural Fire Service & Brigades Donations Fund Trust (DGR Trust) allocated $638,036 of NSW RFS DGR Fund donations to purchase and supply Thermal Imaging Cameras and Buoy Wall Dams to the Service on 29 April this year.

Changes have been announced to the way the 10/50 vegetation clearing rule is applied in some areas.

Thanks to everyone who attended NSW RFS Open Day on Saturday 13 September 2014.

More than 200 of the state's finest NSW RFS firefighters are competing in the 2014 State Championships at Pambula on the south coast this weekend.

Fifty NSW RFS members have attended the AFAC and Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC annual conference in Wellington, New Zealand.

An 'above normal' bush fire season is expected for much of NSW, according to the latest outlook from the Bushfire & Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre