Windellama
Rural Fire Brigade - General Notices
24
hours Before you Burn you must Notify Yass Fire Control on 02
6226 3100
+ Your Immediate Neighbours & As a courtesy
Windellama Bushfire Brigade
Don't forget
to grab one of our brigade fridge magnets, great for emergency contact
details for the brigade.
 The
next date for brigade training is the 28th of August.
Shed
Familiarisation
is the topic and training will be kicking
off at the special time of 9am
(Sounds like a working bee to me !!)
Anyway
come along and we will get familiar with the shed.
(In the nicest Possible Way !!)
9
am Training --- 6.30 pm Monthly Meeting
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ELECTED
POSITIONS 2010/2011
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| Captain
Jim Meehan
Snr Deputy Captain
Lynton Roberts
Deputies
Marten Schutterups
Rex Hockey
Paul Alessi
Dave Edworthy
Sam Daniel
Ashley Armstrong
Noel Sylvester
Graham Kinder
Wayne Back |
President
Rex Hockey
Secretary
Ellen Sylvester
Treasurer
Keith Scorrar
Other Positions:
Equipment Officer/s
Paul Alessi
Allan Martin
Doug Gurney
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Training
Officer/s
Wayne Back
Sam Daniel
Health
and Safety Officer
Ashley Armstrong
Communications Officer
Bev McGaw
Information Officer/s
Bev McGaw
Cathy Meehan
Catering Officer
Cathy Meehan
Assistant
Catering Officer
Dianne Armstrong |
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A Recently
attended Motor Vehicle fire on Windellama Road.

Windellama
Bushfire Brigade, at the request of Ken Hall (the regional superintendent),
was lucky enough to present a scenario at the South Region exercises
at Gundagai 2010.
Dave
Edworthy and Terry Hannan represented Windellama in showing off some
of the
technical advances in weather monitoring (including dynamic FDI direct
from Tarago)
Remote weather stations, fireground communication hot spots, text
based warning systems,
along with emergency text activated sprinkler systems, bushfire respirators
& DSPA fire suppressants.
The following
are a few images from that event.




You
can Click Here to see further video footage
"Bush
Fire Survival Plan"
Prepare. Act. Survive.
CLICK
HERE to Download a PDF copy

Thanks to a great deal of hard work from Brigade Deputy Captain, Paul
Alessi. Windellama 9 Bravo has been purchased by the National Museum
in Canberra. There was a feature article on Canberra Stateline.
Click
Here to View the Stateline Footage - October 2009

The new look FDI Sign
- Released September 2009
" CLICK HERE -- New FDI
Ratings"

A BIG thank you to all those who attended our Brigade Open Day &
the official opening of our memorial wall. Over 120 people attended
this event, and was another fine example of the Windellama community
supporting local events.

The memorial wall - Officially opened 26th September 2009






2009-2010
- ANNUAL DUES BLUE FORMS Click
Here To Download a Printable PDF Copy
Windellama
Public School - Hazard Reduction Burn

Windellama
Public School - Lending a helping hand !


Media Release
- 6th July 2009
RURAL FIRE
SERVICE ASSOCIATION ACCEPTS PREMIER’S COMPROMISE BUT PREFERRED
POSITION REMAINS
‘NO SUPER MINISTRY’
Click
Here to View
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Media Release
- 4th July 2009
RURAL
FIRE SERVICE ASSOCIATION CALLS ON THE REES GOVERNMENT TO COME CLEAN
OVER ITS PLANNED SUPER MINISTRY....
Click
Here to View
Tree-changers
and bushfires target of new study
Last year our brigade was
part of a study by Christine Eriksen form the University of Woolongong.
Click
Here to View
Winter the
most dangerous time for house fires
Media Release - 1st June 2009
The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Southern Tablelands Zone is urging residents
in the Goulburn Mulwaree, Upper Lachlan and Yass Valley Local Government
areas to be especially vigilant with fire safety in their home as winter
takes hold.
"Many people wrongly believe that a house fire
can't happen to them," said. Peter Dyce Community Education Officer
"Every winter, RFS volunteers attend numerous house
fires in our area and many of these could have been avoided by residents
taking a few simple steps.
Click
Here to read more (PDF)...

Thank you to all that turned out to support our annual auction day.
The weather was great and there were bargains a plenty. Thanks to Denise
for the following action pics from the day.


The following shots are from the Claypit Road Fire in January. The fire
was the largest in our brigade area this year. Other local brigades
were also quick to respond & help in the efforts of stopping &
blacking out the fire. For those interested in the mobile
broadband antennas that we have been using [Click
Here]

Capturing Live images
to send back to Fire Control

One of the images
transmitted (3 images per min are uploaded to the website)

Paul Alessi attended the Victoria Bushfires earlier this year - just
CLICK HERE for an online preview
of some footage of the aftermath of such a large fire.

The RFS have a new TV commercial.
You can see this commercial on this website - just CLICK
HERE for an online preview.
Tree-changers
and bushfires target of new study
2 Jun 2009 | Bernie Goldie

A PhD student at
the University of Wollongong is investigating the dynamics between bushfires,
tree-changers and the Rural Fire Service in several NSW rural areas
comparable to rural landscapes hardest hit by the devastating Victorian
bushfires.
Despite the recognised
bushfire hazard in many new rural landscapes, Ms Christine Eriksen a
geographer from UOW's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said
little was currently known about how local environmental knowledge on
bushfires is produced and/or shared among diverse landowners in changing
rural landscapes.
"And also how
this influences the dynamics of NSW Rural Fire Services brigades and
local natural resource management," Ms Eriksen said.
She is focusing
her research on the three new rural landscapes of Kangaroo Valley in
the Shoalhaven; the Nattai-Oakdale/Orangeville-Werombi area of Wollondilly
Shire; and Windellama in the Goulburn-Mulwaree region.
[A new rural landscape
is a rural area experiencing population growth as a result of its proximity
to major urban areas or its high amenity value. With the influx of tree-changers
(lifestylers), the ageing and/or decline of more traditional rural populations
and the subdivision of farmland, lifestyles and values more commonly
associated with urban areas are being brought into rural places, while
conflict over land use and management practices in increasing]
The basic aims of
Ms Eriksen's research are to:
• Identify
landholders' attitudes and actions (or lack of) towards bushfire and
bushfire management in new rural landscapes
• Identify
what factors are significant in influencing the stance rural landholders
take towards bushfires
"The study
examines how landholders manage their land and prepare for bushfires
and how people learn about bushfires and bushfire management,"
Ms Eriksen said.
Ms Eriksen said
her project has revealed that many women do not engage with bushfire
prevention, preparation and response.
“Instead,
women tend to rely on the knowledge and ability of men which places
them in a vulnerable position when a blaze approached their home.”
She has learnt this
through a survey of about 350 rural landowners in the three new rural
landscapes her project is targeting. Of those surveyed, only 24 per
cent had fought a bushfire on their property or had helped a friend
or family member protect their property.
Ms Eriksen said
rural women she has spoken to have identified the need for female-only
bushfire training courses as women discuss issues on a different level
to men.
"Men are much
more focused on fighting the fire rather than having strategies in place
to get children and pets out," she said.
Ms Eriksen recently
presented her findings to the Rural Fire Service and hopes to have her
research published. The Rural Fire Service presentation was as part
of a group from Professor Ross Bradstock’s Centre for Bushfire
Risk Management.
Ms Eriksen's PhD
supervisors are Dr Nick Gill (Earth and Environmental Sciences); Professor
Lesley Head (Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Professor Ross Bradstock
(Institute of Conservation Biology).
Her project has
received funding from the UOW Research Partnerships Grant with the NSW
Rural Fire Service; Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre Project Funding;
and from GeoQuEST Small Grants.
Further Information
on this story visit http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW060276.html
To
Download the full report in PDF- 466kb [Click Here]
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