The New South Wales Rural Fire Service in Australia has a great training program including one that involves Aviation Rescue Crew volunteers and our Coulson Aviation Australia aircrews using the multi-role Bell 412 helicopters. The teams conduct water winch training to practice and refine skills needed to support the services and NSW community as part of their operations. This video was taken in the weeks before parts of New South Wales suffered torrential rains and flooding. This shows the vers

To see fire crews in action, watch SBS One tonight at 8:30pm: Bushfires: Inside the Inferno. Today NPWS firefighters and fire specialists are working to control about 30 fires in our parks and reserves with the other NSW fire agencies NSW RFS and Fire and Rescue NSW. NPWS remote firefighting teams, based in the most fire prone areas on-park, are crucial to containing new fires as they occur. | NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

In what has been a very traumatic, exhausting and anxious bush fire season so far, for the first time this season all bush and grass fires in NSW are now contained. It has taken a lot of work by firefighters and emergency services as well as communities across the state to get to this point. We still have some time to go before the end of the bush fire season, so it is important that you and your family have a bush fire survival plan and know what you will do in the event a fire threatens. | NSW