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                   - Malcolm provides air support
                   - Air-Crane arrives to boost resources this fire season
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                   - Bush Fire victim warns people to prepare for bush fire
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                   - Prepare now for fire season ahead
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                   - Bowen Mountain Fire (Hawkesbury)
                   - MVA on Bells Line 23-8-2012
                   - David Hoadley receives life membership
                   - Prepare now for fire risk next season
                   - Statewide powder keg
                   - New fire chief gets to work
                   - RFS Training and Development Options discussed in Bathurst
                   - Colorado fire devastation
                   - Fire manager David Hoadley returns home
                   - New Valley Height Station used as a helipad
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                   - Fire Exercise
                   - St Florian's Day Award to John Gabriel, Wentworth Falls Rural Fire Brigade
                   - Valley Heights fire station officially opens
                   - New vehicles for Blue Mountains Brigades
                   - Valley Heights Station Opening
                   - Medal Presentation 31-3-2012
                   - Commissioner reviews the 2011/2012 Fire Season
                   - New mobile field kitchen
                   - Cancellation of the 2012 Six Foot Track Marathon
                   - Wet weather doesn't dampen spirits
                   - Fighting fires with ... weather
                   - Wait over for Valley Heights RFS
                   - Black Saturday provides bushfire answers
                   - Bush Fire Awareness
                   - Accused arsonist appears in court
                   - Concerns of more serious bush fires over the rest of Summer
                   - Blue Mountains man arrested over Katoomba bushfire
             - 2011 Gallery
                   - Holiday period fire risk
                   - Christmas Fire Warning
                   - Windstorm 2011: BMCC video
                   - Mobile Trauma Training Facility
                   - Bushfire: Darwin’s Walk Wentworth Falls
                   - Bushfire threat attracts tourists to Blue Mountains: industry chief
                   - Valley Heights Fire Station Project Photos 27/10/2011
                   - Macarthur RAFT
                   - Prepare Act Survive Video 2011
                   - Cobar and Wilcannia Hazard Reduction
                   - Katoomba blaze the Perfect Storm
                   - Cliff Drive Bush Fire Photographs
                   - Cliff Drive, Bush Fire Katoomba Media Coverage
                   - Government announces boost for RFS brigade
                   - Foresty workers get prepared for fire season
                   - COUNCIL RECOGNISES EFFORTS OF WINDSTORM WORKERS
                   - Australian National Firefighting Cadet Championships
                   - Start of the official bush fire season in NSW
                   - Valley Heights Station Construction
                   - State-of-the-art video wall at RFS headquarters
                   - Operation Black Angus
                   - Fire season commences
                   - In the aftermath
                   - Leura bushfire and wild dog hazard reduction photographs from the air
                   - 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
                   - Devices used to light fires
                   - Flames like a furnace
                   - Operation Platypus
                   - Hazard Reduction steps up before fire season
                   - Megalong Valley Reserve HR
                   - Warrimoo Community Consultation
                   - New Valley Heights construction site
                   - Blue Mountains District awards ceremony September 3rd 2011
                   - Inland NSW a tinder box, say bushfire experts
                   - Family Fun Day Images
                   - Red Balloon Ball
                   - Valley Heights Station construction
                   - NSW RFS News Video - Services Winter Blood Drive
                   - After the wind storm - Blue Mountains Gazette
                   - Brigade marks 50 years
                   - Wind storm clean-up continues
                   - Mt Wilson storm damage photographs
                   - Storm recovery photographs
                   - Storm damage 10-7-2011
                   - Storm Recovery 8-7-2011
                   - Emergency centre set up for storm victims at Blackheath
                   - Blue Mountains storm cleanup
                   - Storm Damage across Blue Mountains 6-7-2011
                   - Community Engagement Glenbrook markets June 2011
                   - Superintendent David Hoadley receives Australian Fire Service Medal
                   - Radio Spectrum Usage
                   - Winter Fire Risk Launch
                   - Family Fun Day
                   - Hazard reduction smoke continues to impact Sydney: Channel 9
                   - Sydney receives smoke from Mountains Hazard Reductions
                   - Kenthurst Rural Fire Brigade Residents Programme Video
                   - Fears of severe fire season
                   - Region East Exercise
                   - Girl rescued after Giant Staircase fall
                   - Bushfire Protection course visits the Blue Mountains
                   - Young Members Forum
                   - Locals farewell Rural Fire Service stalwart
                   - 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
                   - Stuarts Road Hazard Reduction February 2011 Slideshow
                   - Red Ridge Hazard Reduction Slideshow
                   - Faulconbridge Hazard Reduction Slideshow
                   - Bonnie Doon Hazard Reduction Slideshow
                   - Concerns over Glenbrook radio tower plan
                   - Be Prepared for Fire
                   - OLD KITCHEN GIVEN A FACE LIFT, BUT THE MEMORIES ARE STILL FRESH
                   - South Katoomba Webpage
                   - Bonnie Doon Hazard Reduction
                   - Relay for Life challenge 2011
                   - East Blaxland Hazard Reduction
                   - Red Hot Fireman's Ball
                   - Mary goes down in history
                   - Hazard Reduction work continues across the Blue Mountains
                   - Willy To Billy Run at Mt Wilson
                   - Mt Wilson RFB assisting at a truck accident on the Bells Line of Road
                   - Search and Rescues in the Wollangambe Canyons and other areas of National Park
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                   - RFS Open Day December 2010
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                   - RFS volunteers want a fairer go
                   - Station Plan Moving Ahead
                   - Councils win changes to RFS levy
                   - Forests NSW Camper Fire Warning
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             - 2010 Gallery
                   - St Columbas High School Fire
                   - Valley Heights RFS brigade could move
                   - Droughts, floods and now bushfires
                   - Lithgow Bushfires 13/12/2010
                   - Mt Wilson Truck handover
                   - Firefighters conduct hazard reduction burns
                   - Volunteers support call for new RFS station
                   - Clean up your properties in preparation for the fire season
                   - Identifying Rail Corridor Hazard Reduction Inspection
                   - OLDIES, BUT GOODIES - 399 YEARS!
                   - Long Service Medal Presentations and New Vehicles for Mountains
                   - Learning to Live with Fire in the Lower Blue Mountains
                   - The challenges of houses in the bushland
                   - Heavy Fuel Load in parts of the Blue Mountains
                   - Four years since fire went through this area
                   - Blue Mountains November 2010
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                   - Fire risk to increase: Commissioner
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