Gallery

The work, as it happens

Operational photography from both partners: burns, training days, the fleet and the Hunter Valley base. No stock, no staging.

Operations

In the field

Prescribed burning, fuel management and the crews that run them, on the ground in regional and remote country.

Crew working a low-intensity prescribed burn through grassy bushland, the appliance holding the track behind them.
Moving through smoke on the edge of a prescribed burn.
A prescribed burn after dark, the crew working the fire edge by head torch.
A test burn beside the 4x4 appliance, lit and watched before the main burn.
Running a hose line from a 4x4 appliance on a bush track.
Tractor and slasher opening up a fire trail, with the crew standing by.

Training

National and international programs at the Hunter Valley base, from the classroom to the fire edge.

An international cohort with T7-4 in the engine bay at the end of a training day at the Hunter Valley base.
International program participants with the course banner.
Cutting a control line by hand with rakehoes during a wildfire training exercise.
Live-fire extinguisher exercise during an emergency response training session.
Refilling a fire-support drone between flights during a field exercise.
Trainees in the six-seat side-by-side buggy outside the lodge, heading out to the training ground.

Vehicles and plant

Hi-Rail tankers, mitigation utes, tractor and mulching plant, and the drone unit, maintained in a state of readiness.

T7-4, a Fuso 4x4 crew-cab Hi-Rail tanker, with its rail guidance wheels raised.
The rear deck of T7-4: pump, hose reel and tank, with the rear rail wheels below.
T7-6, the rail tanker, at night.
T9-5, a Hi-Rail Landcruiser, on a bush track.
T9-2 and T9-3, the mitigation utes, outside the bay.
A ute rigged with a roof cradle for the drone and its cases: the mobile drone unit.
Tracked mulcher on the heavy transporter at the base, ready to move to a job.
Kubota loader working the paddock at the Hunter Valley base.
Pump and controls on a slip-on firefighting unit.

Hunter Valley facility

Classrooms, accommodation, engine bays and bushland on the one property.

The lodge at the Hunter Valley training base: accommodation, communal living and dining on the one property.
The 25-seat training room, open to the yard, with equipment racking along one wall.
The briefing lounge in the lodge.
Communal lounge and games room in the lodge, opening onto the deck.
The engine bay, with the appliances used in training and operations.
Appliances and tractor plant in the covered bay under lights.

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