Call for New Cfa Volunteers

CALL FOR NEW CFA VOLUNTEERS

The Plenty Fire Brigade is looking to recruit active men and women for a variety of volunteer roles, these include:

• Fire Fighting
• Community Education
• Fundraising
• Auxiliary Members
• Junior Brigade Members

(11-16 Years)

The Plenty Fire Brigade has served Plenty and our surrounding communities for over 60 years. The Brigade was originally formed in 1947 as a satellite or sub branch of the Diamond Creek Fire Brigade and in 1961 we became a fire brigade in our own right. We also support the surrounding brigades of Diamond Creek, Eltham, Greensborough, South Morang and Yarrambat,

Today the Plenty Fire Brigade continues to be 100% managed and operated by volunteers. Our fleet consists of an urban pumper / tanker; a rural / bush 4x4 tanker; a road accident rescue appliance and brigade car.

The Plenty Fire Brigade responds to emergency calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We have between 170 and 250 emergency calls per year or about 5 calls per week. This includes structure and car fires, road accidents, fire alarms and of course bush fires. There are also opportunities to travel within Victoria and interstate supporting other brigades in a fire fighting capacity for the larger campaigns such as Black Saturday, Gippsland and Tasmania, to name a few of the recent major fires.

The Plenty Fire Brigade is known as a Specialist Response Brigade, in that we are the primary Road Accident Response Brigade for this area. In the last two years the Brigade has been responded to over 50 road accidents requiring casualty extrication. The area we support in this capacity extends to Eltham, Warrandyte,Christmas Hills, Yarra Glen, King Lake, Whittleseaand Mill Park.

We are currently seeking new members.For further information on what being a member of the Plenty Fire Brigade entails please go to the CFA website the Plenty fire brigade web site or our face book page

Alternatively, drop us an email at ;or call Plenty Captain Adrian Marshman directly on 0427952021 or just drop in and see us at the Plenty Fire Station located on the corner of Yan Yean Road and Memorial Drive, Plenty on any Sunday morning from 9am to 12 noon.

Thank you for taking the time to read this information.

The Members of the
Plenty Fire Brigade