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Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians have a deep cultural connection with Country that has been further highlighted by the bushfire emergency. Kerupmarra Gunditjmara man and DELWP Director, Aboriginal Self-Determination and Reform, Travis Lovett, describes the trauma his people and other Aboriginal Victorians on Country are facing.
Marcia Riederer usually works within our Threatened Species team, reviewing Victoria’s threatened plants and animals. She’s also Australian Geographic’s Photographer of the Year 2019 in the Botanical Category. The bushfires’ impact on wildlife meant Marcia was called on to use her photography skills to tell the stories of our fire affected native animals and the work we’re doing to help them.
With no experience of bushfires in Victoria, a team of firefighters from Quebec in Canada is now working independently to clear hazardous trees in the Hume region thanks to a fellow French speaker, Deputy Chief Fire Officer Tony English says.
During the height of the East Gippsland fires, a taskforce from the United States was deployed to Anglers Rest north of Omeo, as the town was in the path of fast-moving bushfires. FFMVic Anglesea Ranger Team Leader Scott Nicholson was the team’s Operations Officer/Field Liaison, as they worked against the clock to protect the town’s historic hotel.
Suzanne Leckie is the CFA’s Organisational Wellbeing Psychologist, but she’s playing an integral role in a new DELWP-led initiative in the State Control Centre as one of four new Wellbeing Coordinators.
An image of a G-Wagon suppressing a fire with a huge plume of smoke and a helicopter flying above says so much about the bushfire battles happening in Victoria. General Firefighter Brenton Doyle-Smith shares the story behind the photo and how a small crew can make a big difference.
Firefighters from across the state have been working around the clock to protect lives and homes from the destructive Abbeyard/ Yarrarabula bushfire in Victoria’s north-east. Senior Forest Fire Management Officer Bodin Campbell was part of a taskforce from the Otway District which worked through intense conditions in the Buffalo River Valley.
During a bushfire crisis, we want more than anything to read good stories that give us hope. Andy Murray, Forest, Fire and Regions Southern Ark Operations Manager, has done just that with this look at the Long-footed Potoroo.
Believe it or not, our emergency response is not just about crews on the ground and in the air.
Page last updated: 28/05/24