• FRNSW Tackles Bushfires Amid Sydney's Wild Weather

    Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) was busy across many parts of Sydney and the Illawarra yesterday afternoon due to the wild and windy weather.Between midday and midnight, FRNSW received almost 1,000 Triple Zero (000) calls for help from the public.Crews attended a large number of fires, bush and grass fires, and wires down from Cromer on the Northern Beaches to Brownsville in Wollongong.Fire rescue effortFirefighters also spent the night mopping up a large grass fire at Horningsea ParkFirefighters al
  • Firies Climb For MND Charity Event In Blue Mountains

    A group of Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) firefighters is just days away from a mammoth 24-hour stair climb of the Furber Steps at Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, to raise money for charity.The group aims to raise $100,000 to aid research into Motor Neurone Disease (MND), as part of the annual ‘Firies Climb for MND’ event.From its origins in Sydney’s CBD in 2015, the ‘Firies Climb for MND’ has evolved, with this year’s fundraisers pushing

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