CFA budget cuts leave new tanker outside old station. ... Yet the government increased the fire services property levy it collects to fund CFA and FRV from $847m in 2023-24 $1.033 billion in 2024-25.

The 24 tonne vehicles hold 10,000 litres of water which is more than double the capacity of heavy tankers and greater than some of the CFA's water bombing aircraft. They will predominantly be used ...

Lara CFA Fire Brigade volunteers have begun fundraising to buy an ultra-light tanker with an estimated cost of $148,500. Lara CFA Fire Brigade volunteers have begun ... My News. Today's Paper.

VIEWED from a distance the CFA's new high-tech concept tanker looks much like most other fire trucks. But this new truck could mark a new direction in the future of firefighting in Victoria. The ...

He said the CFA's total base budget for vehicle replacement was $11 million a year, and the average replacement cost of a heavy tanker was $460,000, while an urban tanker was $980,000.

Upper Murray region CFA volunteers are driving into another high-risk fire season in tankers they say are well past their use-by date. Granya's 33-year-old tanker lacks Class A foam to fight fires ...

Upper Murray region CFA volunteers are driving into another high-risk fire season in tankers they say are well past their use ...

VICTORIA’S volunteer firefighters’ lives are being put at risk as they battle blazes using Australia’s oldest tanker fleet. Of the 1753 trucks in the CFA’s fleet, 544 are more than 20 ...