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Today’s Front Page of The Age features Victoria’s Fire Truck Crisis

Most of Victoria’s urban fire trucks will have exceeded their replacement age by 2025 and are already prone to mechanical problems that can hamper response capacity, firefighters say. Firefighters argue their equipment is leaving them exposed to increasing dangers and affecting their ability to turn out quickly to incidents. In one recent instance of equipment […]

Safety Hazards on Old Faulty Trucks as Temperatures Rise

s temperatures soar across Victoria, Fire Rescue Victoria’s fleet is showing serious faults. Overheating trucks and ineffective air conditioning are becoming a growing concern at multiple locations, creating major safety risks for our firefighters and the community. Firefighters can’t control the extreme heat or the heavy protective gear they must wear, but they should be […]

Another Critical FRV IT Applications Outage

Well, FRV has started 2025 the same way they finished 2024, with failures of the IT system on the 19th of December 2024 repeating today in 2025. Nothing critical though, just the phones, and the WiFi, and the station turn out system, and the vehicle tracking system, and the mapping system, and the event tracking […]

Fire Trucks Fails at Grampians Fire!

Victoria’s Fire Rescue Fleet continues to let down our hardworking firefighters and the communities they strive to protect. Multiple trucks broke down during strike team operations in Halls Gap, including: Photos show 5 fire crews stuck on the freeway as their outdated and unreliable trucks waited for help. Firefighters are ready to put their lives […]

UFU Xmas BBQ Breakup

Thank you to our members, staff and supporters who were able to come along and enjoy our annual Christmas BBQ breakup. In what has been a very challenging year we are grateful for all the support received and wonderful efforts of our staff. The event was well attended and everyone enjoyed being able to share […]

Empty Bay as CBD left without critical Resource

A vital fire truck dedicated to responding to emergencies in Melbourne’s CBD has been taken out of commission following two catastrophic failures. First, the truck overheated while responding to a house fire, leaving it unable to perform its critical role of supporting move-up capability for fire stations across metropolitan Melbourne. The next day, during a […]

Fire Truck breaks down at Halls Gap, No Spares Available

As Victoria braced for ‘uncontrollable’ fire conditions on Boxing Day, Fire Rescue Victoria’s Fleet was left flailing. Following the breakdown of a Fire Truck whilst on strike team deployment to Halls Gap,critical time was lost as there were NO SPARE TRUCKS available and temperatures soared! A “spare” Truck had to be sent from Derrimut to […]

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