by John Robertson On our training evening on Wednesday, 21st October we went to the Polish Place and simulated an attack on a fire coming up the slope. 52 was in the lead with 51 being called to help. Chris…

by Roger Sutton After another week of local brigades fighting a major fire which was gradually encroaching on the eastern suburbs of Rockhampton, more assistance was called for from the SE region and another task force formed. Fifteen volunteers from…

by John Robertson At 1800 on Friday, 16th October a phone call alerted Robbo to be at Jimboomba RFB at 0700 on Saturday with TM41. He was joined by Graham Randall from Greenbank. With Tom Tate of Jimboomba as team leader…

by John Robertson On Wednesday, 14th October Roger (TM2), Don and Robbo took 52 to Chambers Flat to join Strike Team Delta. This consisted of five mediums and one light attack under the command of T1 (Cookie). Initially it was…

by John Robertson On Tuesday a call from Ewan Cayzar sent Robbo off to Rocky and a similar call sent Rory to Townsville on Wednesday. In both cases the deployment was over six days. This report is about Rocky but…

by John Robertson On the afternoon of Saturday 2nd October 2009, with high winds, a very high fire danger and dust we were turned out to a grass fire near the corner of Kilmore and Barry. This is in Tamborine…

by John Robertson This was a continuous deployment by the Brigade of a medium attack truck in support of Birnam RFB at a wildfire covering about 70 hectares in Mundoolun with several individual houses in the line of fire.  See…