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Mount Forbes Rural Fire Brigade
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About
Mt Forbes
Our
Brigade Classification is CLASS 2.
We
are members of the Ipswich Group of Rural Fire Brigades
We
have three vehicles
Light attack unit which is a Nissan Patrol 4 Wheel Drive Cab (Unit 41) fitted
with a 600 litre tank and BFFF foam injection
Medium attack Unit which is a Mitsubishi Canter 4 Wheel Drive Cab (Unit 51)
fitted with a 1500 litre tank and BFFF foam injection.
Tanker Unit which is an Isuzu 500 Truck (Unit 71). This tanker has a water
carrying capacity of 4800 litres. This replaces our old International 4 Wheel
Drive Acco Truck which has now been decommissioned and
sold but the new owners are still using this vehicle. For an old girl (built in
1969) she is still doing well!
This unit is mainly a supply unit but it has the facility to supply directly to
any urban units and also has the facility to draw water from water mains, dams
etc. and also has the standard fire fighting capabilities.
The type of communication available from our Unit
41 is VHF channel 15 and UHF channel 35. These capabilities are in Unit 41 and
Unit 61. At present VHF only in Unit 51.
The other type of communication available from our
Unit 51 vehicle is a mobile telephone, CDMA Network 0428 897 522, and radio
contact to our base station as mentioned above.
All units carry hand held CB radios on channel 15
to enable our members to contact each other while outside the vehicles.
The
Brigade covers the areas of Willowbank, Ebenezer and parts of Walloon. The area
from the Bremer River to the west Warrill Creek to the east, Ipswich Toowoomba
Railway line to the north and Geobels Road to the south. This is an area
of about 156 square kilometers.
The
Brigade is fortunate in that our area does not include any heavily forested
areas. We have open country and some heavily timbered areas. The open country
can have a fairly heavy grass cover in a good season. Our area is mostly flat
with a few gentle hills.
We
have two coal mines in our area as well as a Service Station, a small
neighbourhood shopping centre, an explosive manufacturing plant incorporated in
one of the mine sites, two explosive storage compounds and a fertilizer
manufacturing plant.
We
also service the Ipswich Motorsport Precinct and our
area also adjoins the RAAF Base at Amberley.
Our
Brigade emblem is a green lion. We are able use this symbol by courtesy of Mr
Ron Leo of Leo and Green who are the original registered owners of the Green
Lion. This emblem is on all of our vehicles.
Our
first vehicle, Unit 51, was purchased with a donation by Leo and Green and this
enabled the Mount Forbes Rural Fire Brigade to have a faster response to any
call outs and also provided us with better off road capability.
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