The Tamborine Mountain Rural Fire Brigade was re-formed in 1980 as a community response to the problem of bushfires on the flanks of our mountain. In this, our 25th year, despite the enormous encroachment of development, the Brigade is still…
Non Emergency 0407 583 121
Emergency 000
Month: June 2006
Landman Court
0815 5 June 2006. One crew responded to a pager call to back up Tamborine Mountain Auxiliaries and Clagiraba Rurals at a shed fire on Landman Court Mount Tamborine. The Tamborine Mountain appliance supplied multiple loads of water to the…
Posted in Incident Reports
Landman Court
by John Robertson “As I was walking my dog on the morning of Monday 5th June a large plume of black smoke was coming from a property about 500 metres to the south-east. I called it in to Firecom who…
Posted in The Insider
First Aid and Flames
“Paul ran the training on Wednesday evening 7th June. He began with some first aid basics – how to help and/or carry an injured person. Then on to CPR. Paul told us that when he was twelve his life was…
Posted in Training
Burn-Over Survival
On Wednesday 17th May the subject of training was ‘surviving burn-over’. The scenario was that a crew gets trapped in the path of a severe fire – perhaps by a sudden change of wind, perhaps by the truck getting stuck…
Posted in Training
Round Robin
by John Robertson Wednesday evening training is getting more realistic and more fun. On 10th May we had an exercise, game, competition – call it what you will. It was the brain-child of Paul Gardner who devised and set it…
Posted in Training