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Bushfires

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Eastern seaboard bushfires 1994

Erickson S-64 helicopter

Engadine Bush Fire Station

1994 Eastern seaboard bushfires

Arcadia-Berrilee Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade

Galston Bushfire Brigade

Glenorie Volunteer Bushfire Brigade

Hornsby Heights Volunteer Bushfire Brigade

Mount Hunter Rural Fire Brigade

NSW Department of Bush Fire Services

New South Wales Rural Fire Service

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Bushfires

Eastern seaboard bushfires 1994

The bushfire season of 1994 was one of the worst in the history of New South Wales. Eight hundred blazes torched over 800,000 hectares of bushland from Batemans Bay to the Queensland border, with mass evacuations occurring in populated areas up and down the state. Three volunteer firefighters and one civilian lost their lives during the fires.

Erickson S-64 helicopter

Helicopter with 10,000 litre water tank built to extinguish fires.

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Engadine Bush Fire Station

Headquarters of the volunteer Engadine Rural Fire Brigade.

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1994 Eastern seaboard bushfires

Multiple fires along the east coast of New South Wales in the summer of 1993/1994 burned through about 800,000 hectares of land, including sections of Sydney suburbs and 40 national parks. Four people were killed.

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Arcadia-Berrilee Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade

Volunteer community fire brigade.

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Galston Bushfire Brigade

Fire fighting organisation established in 1952.

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Glenorie Volunteer Bushfire Brigade

Volunteer bush fire brigade established in 1947

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Hornsby Heights Volunteer Bushfire Brigade

Volunteer fire brigade established in 1965 as the Gorge-Hornsby Heights Volunter Bushfire Brigade.

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Mount Hunter Rural Fire Brigade

Volunteer fire brigade established in 1952

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NSW Department of Bush Fire Services

Established in 1990 to administer the Bush Fires Act, 1949 (Act No. 31, 1949) and superceded in 1997 by the NSW Rural Fire Service.

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New South Wales Rural Fire Service

The world's largest volunteer firefighting organisation with jurisdiction over 99 percent of the land area of New South Wales. Formed in 1997 when legislation was introduced after the Coronial inquiry into 1994 Eastern seaboard fires recommended that the many local volunteer fire services be consolidated into a single Rural Fire Service with a single chain of command.

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