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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Due to trade shifts, EU import tonne miles have risen from 11% of the total tanker trade in the first quarter of 2022 to 14% in the first quarter of 2024 and will remain high as long as ships ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CFA volunteers’ ageing pumpers and tankers are set to get even older, after the Andrews Government’s 2020 State Budget fell well short of meeting their replacement target.

The 24,105 tonne chemical tanker was carrying vegetable oils from ... was set up to own and operate the new 10,800-deadweight-tonne chemical tanker costing $19.5 million which is expected ...

CFA volunteers’ ageing pumpers and tankers are set to get even older, after the Andrews Government’s 2020 State Budget fell well short of meeting their replacement target.