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- COUNCIL RECOGNISES EFFORTS OF WINDSTORM WORKERS
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- Valley Heights Station Construction
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- Fire season commences
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- Valley Heights Fire Station Construction Update
- Two Teenagers Arrested for Arson
- Winmalee 9th Life Members Dinner
- Minister and Commissioner visit Leura
- Arson Squad boosted for fire season
- Crews respond to ninth fire
- Leura Bush Fire Television Coverage
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- Flames like a furnace
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- Hazard Reduction steps up before fire season
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- Blue Mountains District awards ceremony September 3rd 2011
- Inland NSW a tinder box, say bushfire experts
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- Valley Heights Station construction
- NSW RFS News Video - Services Winter Blood Drive
- After the wind storm - Blue Mountains Gazette
- Brigade marks 50 years
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- Storm damage 10-7-2011
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- Emergency centre set up for storm victims at Blackheath
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- Storm Damage across Blue Mountains 6-7-2011
- Community Engagement Glenbrook markets June 2011
- Superintendent David Hoadley receives Australian Fire Service Medal
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- Hazard reduction smoke continues to impact Sydney: Channel 9
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- Kenthurst Rural Fire Brigade Residents Programme Video
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- Region East Exercise
- Girl rescued after Giant Staircase fall
- Bushfire Protection course visits the Blue Mountains
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- Blue Mountains RFS Training November 2010
- New plan for community engagement
- Springwood Rotary Talk
- Stuarts Road Hazard Reduction 3-10-2008 Slideshow
- Richmond RAAF Visit South Katoomba 20-06-2010
- Dalrymple Hazard Reduction 11-09-2009 Slideshow
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- Concerns over Glenbrook radio tower plan
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- OLD KITCHEN GIVEN A FACE LIFT, BUT THE MEMORIES ARE STILL FRESH
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COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDER PROGRAM
COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDER PROGRAM
MT WILSON/MT IRVINE RURAL FIRE BRIGADE
The Community First Responder Program is a joint initiative of the RFS and the NSW Ambulance Service. It aims to provide certain RFS volunteers with the necessary expertise and equipment to provide emergency medical response in areas where the Ambulance Service is likely to be delayed by virtue of distance. In the case of Mt Wilson/Mt Irvine Rural Fire Brigade, selected and trained volunteer firefighters will be supported by both services to provide an immediate local emergency medical response pending the arrival of Paramedics
- First ‘Community First Responder Program’ in region
- 7 graduates – Barry Freeman, Peter Raines (SDC), Beth Raines (Captain), Kathleen Oakes, Diana Landsberg, Libby Raines, Suzzane Daly
- Mt Wilson and Mt Irvine are isolated villages in the upper Blue Mountains. The ambulance service comes from Lithgow and is 30-45 minutes away. Resident numbers are small but the nearby busy road and the visitor numbers give plenty of opportunity for the need for an ambulance.
- Almost 300 residents between the two villages, 75% of which are part time or weekenders. A large proportion are retirees.
- Approx 70 full time residents of whom only 12 are under the age of 50
- Good rainfall and rich basalt soil mean that the villages have become famous for their European style gardens, the temperate rainforests and their walnut and chestnut trees. The peak times for visitors are spring and especially autumn when the nuts are harvested. Visitors then can peak at 500 per day on weekends
- Villages are situated on the edge of the Blue Mountains World Heritage site and attract many bushwalkers, canyoners and campers. In the warmer months their numbers can peak on weekends at 200 per day.
- Villages are 10 minutes from the Bells Line of Road, a busy road from Sydney to Lithgow. NRMA has declared this road ‘currently one of the most dangerous in Australia’.
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