Bushfire fighting...in a swamp! - Some reflections on recent CFS Interstate Deployments

With over 15,000 volunteers, across 434 local Brigades, fielding 784 off road fire fighting vehicles attending almost 9000 incidents per year and with only 109 paid staff it is one of most cost-efficient emergency services in Australia.  Since 2018 the number of deployments to assist counterparts elsewhere in Australia greatly increased culminating in the unprecedented fires currently unfolding in NSW and QLD.  Today's speaker, Lt. Haydn McComas from Hermitage CFS Brigade, will outline lessons learned from the QLD deployments in Nov - Dec 2018.