As per the attached circular, the Bushfire Centre of Excellence has released the following courses: Bushfire Fundamentals Rural Fire Awareness These courses fill an important need in providing non-operational stakeholders some knowledge of bushfire to support IMT/ISG (Bushfire Fundamentals), as…
Read more here: DFES General Circular No: 157/2021: Facing the Challenges of COVID-19
On 22 September 2021 DFES launched the inaugural Annual Wellbeing Challenge, being held during the month of October, and brought to you by Thriving at DFES. The purpose of the Annual Wellbeing Challenge is to provide participants with a fun…
The AGM was held following the end of the WAFES conference program on Saturday 4 September 2021. We thank those BGU members who attended the meeting, and hope you enjoyed the conference. We are pleased to welcome Adrian Goh (Bullsbrook…
2021 WA Fire & Emergency Services Awards Congratulations to all 2021 WAFES Award winners and nominees. Once again, the standard of nominees across the board has been significant making it very difficult for the judges to make decisions on who…
The WAFES Conference is drawing close now and for those of you who are attending the conference next week, please see our VFESWA AGM notice attached. Date: Saturday 11th September 2021 Time: 16:30 hours…
The Bureau of Meteorology are bringing in some changes and improvements to the way "spot" or Incident Weather Forecasts are provided, to give better information to incident controllers. The details are outlined in DFES Operational Circular 10/2018 which is available…
ESVA President's Report The last six months has been extremely busy for the ESVA committee as we work to towards ensuring all the needs of our volunteers are being addressed across the state in every facet of their roles and…