News

Chief Fire Officer of the Edmonton Fire Rescue Services in Canada, Ken Block, has been appointed as Victoria’s first Fire Rescue Commissioner.

The December edition of Resilient Recovery eNews is now available.

As of 1 December 2019, the responsibility for the administration of Victoria’s Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements has moved to Emergency Management Victoria (EMV).

The emergency management sector in Victoria has been working on building more meaningful community involvement, more effective partnerships and stronger recovery arrangements.

As I reflect on the situation in NSW and QLD, my thoughts are very much with the firefighters, emergency services and in particular, the communities impacted by fires in those states.

Emergency services put their plans into practice by holding an evacuation exercise of Powelltown, Gilderoy and Three Bridges last Saturday 26 October.

Victoria is sending 21 personnel to New South Wales to assist with managing the Busbys Flat fires.

Victoria’s emergency management sector has begun preparations for the summer season.

EMV has been collaborating with Ambulance Victoria, ESTA, CFA and VICSES on the development of the new Supplementary Alerting Service (SAS) app.

Victoria’s emergency management sector has begun preparations for the summer season and Victorians are being urged to start actively preparing too.