In a bid to catch up, the NSW Rural Fire Service will ... the coming weeks in a bid to catch up on its mitigation targets. Credit: Wolter Peeters RFS data shows that between July last year to ...

The NSW Rural Fire Service has a new secret weapon in the battle against deadly bushfires: goats. Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about ...

NSW RFS crews conduct hazard reduction burns ahead ... That’s why fire agencies also rely on other mitigation efforts, including creating fire breaks, manually removing vegetation or using ...

In a significant win for local government, a NSW Parliamentary committee has recommended that the state's Rural Fire Service ...

The first total fire ban for the 2020-21 season will be in place for parts of New South Wales on Friday with warm, dry and windy conditions expected. Very high fire danger is forecast for ...

A volunteer firefighter is suing the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS), after she was groped by one member of her brigade in the state's Central Tablelands and allegedly crash tackled by another.

After a horror bushfire season that saw 5.4 million hectares burnt and 2500 homes destroyed in NSW, some good news. 24 bush and grass fires continue to burn across the state but all are contained.

The NSW government will now spend $69 million equipping more than 5000 Rural Fire Services vehicles with Starlink equipment and services over the next three years. The vehicle-as-a-node (VaaN ...

The Cessnock Showground is also open for livestock. NSW RFS said the "out of control fire" started burning in bushland at Kearsley, about 5km southeast of Cessnock, and is moving in a southerly ...

NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons. Source: AAP "Overwhelmingly in my decades of service and even getting around some of these fire grounds in the last few days, the volunteers ...

NSW Rural Fire Service has fitted Starlink to the first 53 of a planned 5000 vehicles under a $69 million project, with 20 vehicles participating in tests. The NSW government committed to ...

The NSW Rural Fire Service has a new secret weapon in the battle against deadly bushfires: goats.