• Australian Fire Authorities Council

  • The Australian Defence Force Academy is the centre for tertiary education for the Australian Defence Force. It is located in Canberra, the national capital.
    Within the Academy, The University of New South Wales has established a college, known as University College, which is responsible for conducting courses of study and research. The Australian Defence Force Academy was involved with the European Commission in the Efaistos fire research project.

  • Emergency Services net for Australia & New Zealand.

  • FireNet Information Network is an on-line information service concerning all aspects of fire science and management - including fire behaviour, weather, prevention, mitigation and suppression, plant and animal responses to fire and all aspects of fire effects. It should be of interest to professional rural and forest fire managers, educators and trainers, researchers , volunteer fire fighters and students working in all aspects of fire.

  • NSW Rural Fire Service.

  • Queensland Fire & Rescue Authority
  • South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service

  • Victoria -- Country Fire Authority -- Official Home Page

  • Victoria -- Country Fire Authority -- Brigades on the Net

  • Northern Territory Fire Service

  • Northern Territory Police, Fire & Emergency Services
    Manufacturer of
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    the fire industry

    Western Australian

    Western Australian Ministers' Media Statements

    1st December 2002: The Premier, announced New 'heli-tankers' set to improve WA's aerial firefighting capabilities

    Organisations Under the Western Australian Minister for Emergency Services

  • Previously separate bodies such as WA Fire and Rescue Service; WA Bushfires Board and State Emergency Services, have been united under the umbrella of the Fire and Emergency Services Authority

  • The Firefighters' Memorial Grove

  • Western Australian Fire and Rescue Service
  • Bush Fires Board of Western Australia

    Western Australia Land Information System -- WALIS

    New Zealand

  • Official New Zealand Fire Service Site
  • Emergency Services net for Australia & New Zealand.

    Canada

  • Human Resources Development Canada A big umbrella

  • Emergency Services Database where you can look for people and information from the entire Emergency Services Community

  • ACE's Place -- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

    United Kingdom

    The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister [ODPM]

    Following the General Election in June 2001, changes were made to the responsibilities of government departments. Sponsorship of the construction industry moved to DTI, whilst DTLR retained responsibility for Building Regulations. At the same time the Fire Service transferred to DTLR from the Home Office.

    Currently -- 1st August 2002 -- the Department of Transport Local Government & the Regions no longer exists and its fire-related responsibilities have been transferred to the

    A number of Departments deal with fire safety policy and legislation issues. The Health and Safety Commission/Executive [HSC/E] liaises closely with the other Departments on workplace fire safety policy and enforcement issues and has been involved in a number of reviews of fire legislation.

    The Health and Safety Executive are interested in the health and safety of people at work which includes people who may be harmed by the way work is done (for example because they live near a factory, or are passengers on a train).

    The Commission is responsible to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and to other Secretaries of State for the administration of the HSW Act throughout Great Britain.

    THE BAIN REPORT, "The Future of the Fire Service: reducing risk, saving lives", published on December 16 2002, recommends radical changes to the UK fire service. The report, was well received by Government, the fire service employers, and the Chief and Assistant Chief Officers Association but the Fire Brigades Union said the report was 'wrong and biased' and contained little that was new. The report is discussed on page 3 and page 15 of "Fire Prevention Fire Engineers Journal" of January 2003.

  • "FIRENET: Electronic Pages for the British Fire Service": An extensive directory of British Fire Sites.
  • "Fire Service" site [UK] has lots of good stuff.

  • The Fire Service National Benevolent Fund.

    NEW

    It has been written that the inception of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 [Section 7 deals with gathering relevant information] which came into effect on October 1 2004, removed national standards of fire cover and extended the "risk assessment" approach to emergency response so all the previous discussion of "standards of fire cover" below is now relegated to history. [In this context "risk assessment" refers to classifying parts of a fire station's area by degree of risk for the purpose of assigning such parts a standard turn-out. In another context, "risk assessment" has to do with assessing and dealing with the risks in an individual building.]

    The new Act itself does not prescribe required response times but does require each Brigade [at local government level] to develop operational plans which will include target response times. There is also some co-ordination at regional level. A lot of relevant information is scattered through the web site of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. One such reference is Fire and Resilience. You can also find a lot of stuff under google: "fire emergency response times" or similar.

  • The Fire Cover Review Comprehensive reports on the process and results so far.

      Articles about The Fire Cover Review from "The Fire Engineers Journal"

    • "Fire Covered" by Cath Reynolds reproduced with permission from the "Fire Prevention & Fire Engineers Journal" of February 2002 which "describes the progress made ... in modernising standards of fire cover in the UK"
      AND
      "The UK Fire Cover Review" by the IFE representative on the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council which was published in the January 2000 issue of "The Fire Engineers Journal" are reproduced on the (unofficial) IFE of Australia, WA Group Home Page. The latter will also be available for a time in PDF on line by going to IFE (UK) and then clicking on [1] January 2000 Journal/ [2] January 2000 issue/ [3] The UK Fire Cover Review.

    United States and the Rest of the World

  • National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health -- Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation & Prevention Program

  • Fire Safe Cyberspace

  • Fire Safe International

  • Fire Safe USA

  • Fire & Safety Associations

  • Fire Safe Publications

  • The Department of Homeland Security was established in the aftermath of the World Trade Center catastrophe as an umbrella to co-ordinate existing security services. FEMA [see below] is one of those existing entities brought under its umbrella.

    France

  • Official French Firefighters Site

    Iceland

  • Icelandic Fire Authority (Not in English)

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