General News
15 October, 2025
Get fire ready
TIMBOON fire brigade will host a Get Fire Ready Day next weekend, promising a day of fun for kids and education on fire preparedness for residents.
On Saturday, October 25, from 10am-2pm, Timboon fire station will be open to all with the opportunity to learn more about how to be ready coming into fire season.
Timboon Country Fire Authority (CFA) first lieutenant Daryl Spencer said one of the highlights of this year’s Get Fire Ready Day was the colouring competition, among other activities for kids on the day.
“This year I’ve printed off a bunch of colouring sheets and we’ve given them to the primary school for the Preps and Year Ones to colour in and they have to bring them back to the fire station on the Saturday morning for Captain Koala to have a look at their colouring ins and get a bag of lollies,” he said.
“On the day we’ll also have a sausage sizzle cooking all day.
“We’ll have thermal imaging demonstrations, so how we look for fires and hot spots in a fire.
“We’ll have fire extinguisher demonstrations, but we’re not going to use foam ones, we’re just going to use water ones so the kids can squirt water out of a proper fire extinguisher.
“Local people can meet all the firefighters here and we’re going to have hose bowling.”
Mr Spencer said the goal was to keep the kids busy with lots of fun activities while they had the opportunity to speak to parents about fire readiness.
“If you haven’t got your house or your garden up to scratch, it’s not the fire so much as the embers that are floating around – they can just start a bushfire,” he said.
“If you’ve got one of those little straw mats on the front of your house and an ember gets on that, that will start a fire and that will burn the house down.
“The fire is 100 kilometres away – it’s all the embers that keep blowing over.
“You need to get fire ready as in get all the stuff that’s burnable away from your house so we as firefighters can protect your house.”
Mr Spencer said as a small country brigade, it was impossible for them to be everywhere at once, so they were reliant on the community to come along to these events and brush up on fire safety so they would know exactly what to do in the event of a bushfire.
“We can’t be at every house in Timboon,” he said.
“There’s a lot of things we have to protect first like the hospital and stuff like that.
“There’s not many of us to go around.
“If people could do as much as they can to get their house and their property up to fire readiness for the season, it’s just going to make our job a lot easier.”
Handouts will be available on the day and CFA members will be available at the fire station to answer all questions anyone may have about being fire ready going into fire season.
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