A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson after an investigation into more than 30 allegedly deliberately lit grass fires. Police established Strike Force Rummery earlier this month to ...

Volunteer firefighter hero Ryan Channells who was back on the frontline a day after receiving a stage-four melanoma diagnosis, has been left overwhelmed by the support he has received following ...

The number of trained firefighters able to tackle blazes is 20,000 less than previously thought, with the shortfall raising concerns about the state’s preparedness for major bushfire disasters.

Recriminations over the fire that destroyed almost 100 properties in Tathra intensified yesterday, with 2GB host Alan Jones savaging emergency Services Minister Troy Grant on air for what he called ...

THE man, believed to be 76, was on his way to a house fire at Loadstone, in northern NSW, with the Kyogle RFS team on Thursday when he appeared to go into shock.

New figures have revealed 26,000 current volunteers across NSW are aged in their 60s and 70s alone, with older people making up the majority of members in the state’s rural areas, where bushfires are ...

A RURAL Fire Service volunteer is in custody after allegedly starting 10 fires throughout Lake Macquarie over the past two months. Alex Gordon Noble admitted in Toronto Local Court to setting a total ...

Nationals Member for Oxley Michael Kemp has spent five nights his week fighting blazes near the Victorian and NSW border as part of the Mid Coast RFS Remote Area Firefighting Team. It comes six years ...

A teenager is accused of lighting more than a dozen fires on NSW’s far north coast before returning to fight them as an RFS volunteer. Police launched an investigation into more than a dozen grass ...

The 2019-20 New South Wales summer season was the worst fire season that NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) has ever faced. Off the back of that period, the NSW RFS realised it needed greater operational ...

The NSW Rural Fire Service faces a looming crisis with 26,000 volunteers in their 60s and 70s, while cost-of-living pressures deter younger recruits from joining their ranks. New figures have revealed ...