After 3 very successful days at The Craft Extravaganza, the successful winners of the raffle were drawn by Councillor Nigel Waistell, local Rural Fire Brigade Member Maria de Koning, and Lloyd Holloway. The Mitre 10 Barbecue and tools were won…

U3A President Grahame Griffin and Committee Member, Frank Rotherham, last week were pleased to present the cheque, for $3100 from all the profits made from their two Zamia Theatre Concerts on September 12 & 13 to Greg Lincoln as 1st…

Fund raising concerts for our local Rural Fire Brigade will be held at the Zamia Theatre 7.30 pm on Saturday the l2th September, and at 2.30pm on Sunday the 13th of September. Local musicians, singers, performing groups and comedians have…

Deputy Commissioner Mr Mike Wassing (Rural Fire Service) visits the station.

Exciting times ahead for the Tamborine Mountain Rural Fire Brigade as preparations for the 2014 fire season move ahead. People might think that firefighting is a matter of standing there with a hose to put the fire out, but here,…

 The first line of defence for your property is not your Rural Fire Brigade- it’s YOU! Are you prepared for the unthinkable to happen? Have you been reading the newspapers lately? They appear to be full of doom and gloom…

Last weekend there were three events which called on our resources. On the 12th July there was a callout for a fire at Wongawallen. This was caused by a 4WD vehicle getting into trouble with the result that it caused a…

Being up on the mountain and surrounded by National Parks means that a lot of the work carried out by the Tamborine Mountain Rural Fire Brigade is by its very nature “off road”. While our Medium Attack units and other…

One aspect of being a Rural Fire fighter that most of us accept but never really get to feel comfortable about is the prospect of running into snakes when we’re scrambling around the bush trying to bring a fire under…