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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Youth WeekRural Fire ExpoThe
9 Rural Fire Brigades in the Ipswich Local Authority are comprised of
approximately 220 volunteers
from the Rural Community. The majority are landholders in their own
right and have been together over many years as a Brigade to protect their
patch. Today
the volunteers are reaching the older age group where retirement is talked about
but in many cases can’t be undertaken as the youth of the area are growing up
and leaving for better education and better paid jobs in the work force than if
they stayed at home and worked the family property. Some Brigades have attracted
some urban residents to be part of their Brigade structure, but are restricted
in some ways because of the response time to Brigade locations and Rural Fire
Stations. The
stations are not manned like our Urban counterparts but are summoned via a
paging system from Firecom Southeast. Crews as required proceed to the reported
fire and give a situation report back to Firecom. If more resources are needed
then Firecom activates more Brigade members, vehicles and other Brigades to
assist. All Volunteer undergo Fire Management Level 1 training, which is a
National Accredited Course for Certificate II Public Safety. Some members go
further with training especially crew leaders and officers. Other
courses are Incident Management, Brigade Management, and Certificate IV
Workplace Training and Assessment if required for Brigade Training Officers. Ipswich
Group Rural Fire Brigade has joined forces with the 9 Brigades to lead the way
in fostering an Expo. This Expo has come about with a grant from the Ipswich
City Council to host an activity during Youth Week. The
Youth of the region will be targeted to come and see what volunteering in a
Rural Fire Brigade is all about. We
also hope it will open up an avenue to new property owners as well within the
local authority area to come and see what Rural Fire Brigades are all about. We
will also introduce you to the workings of an Incident Management Team.
This is the strategy used by Rural
Fires for management of an incident, and use resources to the best capacity
within the Local authority before requesting resources from another Group or
Local Authority area. The Incident Management Team may report up the line to the
Incident Control Centre (ICC) for the Shire/Local Authority, who in turn reports
to the Regional Fire Control Centre (RFCC) who then talks with the State
Operations Control Centre (SOCC) We
have set aside 21st April 2007 Venue
is the Rosewood Showgrounds. Time
10.00am to 2.00pm The
Official part of the day starts at 10.00am and then their will be activities in
both the static display area and the ring area to showcase Skills and Drills
talents. Our
target audience will be Youth 16-25 and Rural families.
We will be doing this with a series of media both print and radio over
the next few weeks. We
would like assistance from your Media source to facilitate editorial and
promotion leading up to this event. I
have attached a draft program of events for the day: Brief
program is as follows: ·
6.00am early staff arrive to take
over from paid security, first stage of IMT is activated with staging area and
login of staff (volunteers) ·
6.30am Lions will be on site to
setup food stall and will have breakfast for sale for those who require it ·
7.00am to 9.00am Brigades arrive
and set up their own static displays ·
6.30am to 9.00am Business will
arrive and set their display up, we have contacted at least 20 business houses
and non profit organisations to have products on display.
Many will relate to fire fighting equipment and rural farm fire fighting
equipment. ·
9.30am RSL Youth Band will play
interlude music and continue through out the day ·
9.30am Incident Management Team
starts to set up ·
9.30am Official guests arrive ·
10.00am Official opening and
launch of Group Web Site ·
10.30am Official Morning Tea ·
10.45am Official Party will look
at static displays ·
At no fixed time ring events with
Skills and Drills will be started from the IMT (Incident Management Team) ·
There will be displays with fire
extinguishers ·
The IMT will have Admin who can
take donations and write receipts on the day for those members of the public who
wish to make donations. Unless specified for a particular Brigade area the
donations will be then split between all active Brigades on the day. ·
Lions Club of Rosewood have the
catering rights ·
The event will begin to wind down
from 1.30pm and the large marquee will be dismantled and packed away from 2.00pm
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