UFU Victoria

United Firefighters Union of Australia
Victorian Branch

Search
Shift Calendar

From Pool to Puddle: Victoria’s Fire Truck Crisis

At Fire Station 87 in Dandenong, the station’s 15-year-old Ladder Platform is offline due to faults.

On January 23rd, Commissioner Freeman praised FRV’s “pool of spare appliances” as the solution to replace broken-down trucks.

On January 24th, firefighters were sent a 28-year-old “spare appliance” from the pool to fill the gap, but it broke down before it even made it into service.

This isn’t a pool, it’s a rapidly drying puddle!

Firefighters are being forced to rely on outdated, unreliable equipment, putting their safety and the community’s safety at risk.

Victoria urgently needs investment in a modern fire truck fleet. Firefighters deserve better. Victorians deserve better.

The UFU acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land, and we pay our respect to their Elders, past and present.

The UFU supports the call of First Nations peoples for a Voice to Parliament to be enshrined in the Constitution.

Access to and use of the United Firefighters Union Website including all information available on that system (for example, documents, presentations, and videos) is organised, operated and owned by the United Firefighters Union. The materials contained on the UFU’s intranet are protected by Australian Copyright Laws. No part of the UFU’s Intranet information may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of the UFU. Any breach of the these conditions will result in prosecution.