Fire Rescue Victoria

Fire Rescue Victoria
To the upper left, the Fire Rescue Victoria badge on a red background; to the right, the words FIRE RESCUE VICTORIA.
From a small silhouette of a brass firefighter's helmet rises a laurel wreath. Above it sits a shield of the Southern Cross, as in the Victorian coat of arms, encircled by the words FIRE RESCUE VICTORIA; behind this two crossed axes. A flaming torch surmounts the badge.
Operational area
Country Australia
State Victoria
AddressEastern Hill Fire Station
456 Albert Street, East Melbourne
Agency overview
Established1 July 2020 (2020-07-01)
Employees
  • Operational: 3,489
  • Non-operational: 607
  • (FTE Dec 2020)[1]
Annual budgetA$1 billion (2020)
StaffingCareer
CommissionerGavin Freeman [2]
Facilities and equipment[3]
Districts10
Stations85
Pumpers & pumper tankers109
Aerial appliances17
Rescues8
HAZMATs4
Breathing apparatus5
Fireboats4
Website
frv.vic.gov.au
Fire Rescue Victoria is located in Victoria
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Urban and regional areas serviced by Fire Rescue Victoria[4]

Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) is a fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria, Australia, that provides firefighting, rescue, HAZMAT and Emergency Medical Response services in areas of metropolitan Melbourne and major regional centres throughout Victoria.[5]

FRV operates 85 fire stations with full-time staff firefighters, around half of which are in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and the remainder in regional cities and large towns throughout the state.[6] 34 of these stations which are classified as peri-urban and regional stations, are co-located with volunteer brigades of the Country Fire Authority (CFA).

FRV was formed on 1 July 2020 by a merger of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB), a fully career service responsible for much of the Greater Melbourne area, with the 1400 career firefighters of the CFA, some of whom had operated in "integrated" staff and volunteer brigades on the Melbourne urban fringe and in other centres. Ex-FRV Commissioner Ken Block stated on 1 July 2020 that under the CFA and MFB merge; Fire Rescue Victoria is now made up of more than 3600 operational firefighters.[7]

  1. ^ Blair, Niall. Fire Services Outcome Framework Progress Report: Quarter 1 & 2 2020-2021 (PDF) (Report). Office of the Fire Services Implementation Monitor. p. 11. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Fire Rescue Commissioner Gavin Freeman". Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  3. ^ Fire Rescue Victoria Operational Employees Interim Enterprise Agreement 2020 (PDF). Melbourne: Fair Work Commission. 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Reforming Victoria's Fire Services". Fire Services in Victoria. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  5. ^ "About us". Fire Rescue Victoria. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Response area". Fire Rescue Victoria. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  7. ^ "CFA: proudly volunteer". Country Fire Authority (Press release). 1 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.