Links to firefighter industrial and OHS news stories from Australia and around the world.

Australia:
WA: Station standoff
Perth fire station is unsafe; bays too narrow. The umpire is called in after a year.

NSW: Firefighters warn of increased bushfire risks
Increased catastrophic fire danger puts firefighters and the community at greater risk.

Vic: Switch off risky power poles in bad fire weather: firefighter
A senior Gippsland CFA firefighter is calling for authorities to switch off electricity to high risk power poles on bad fire days.

Vic: New DC-10 waterbomber 'operationally' successful
Fire officials are happy with work done by a new water bombing aircraft used to tackle a fire in the Murray Sunset National Park.

Tas: Crews battle to control Highlands blaze
Fire crews will be working this morning to control a bushfire in Tasmania's Central Highlands.

Vic: Gippsland marks bushfire anniversary
Residents in Gippsland's Strzelecki Ranges have gathered to mark a year since the Boolarra bushfires tore through the region.

SA: Billet system flagged for SA bushfire evacuations
The Deputy Mayor of Adelaide has proposed a bushfire billeting system to provide people with a safe place to go should they be faced with a catastrophic fire warning.

NSW: Riverina faces more deadly blazes: report
Greenpeace says there is a deadly risk to Riverina communities with predictions of more catastrophic fires as the globe warms.

Tas: Highest fire death toll
Tasmania has the highest number of deaths from house fires in the nation.

WA: Police probe bushfire device find
Dongara police appeal over device apparently designed to start bushfires.

Aus: Experts closer to predicting fire behaviour
Australian scientists say they are closer to being able to forecast how severe bushfires will behave.

International:
Spain: Firefighters attacked by police
500 La Coruna firefighters demonstrate over the privatisation of emergency services
Youtube video of the attack.

USA: Carbon monoxide detectors will be required in most New York homes
Firemen's Association work to get the word out.

UK: Firefighters reveal the horrors of Haiti rescues
Desperate efforts to tackle to the human suffering in stricken Haiti.

USA: Firefighters train for water disasters
Firefighters spent about 2.5 hours last week working at an ice-covered lake

UK: British Firefighters in WW2 Exercise
Historic 1939 pic.

USA: Firefighter Deaths Down in 2009
Lowest number of fatalities reported since 1993. 47.7% of deaths were attributed to heart attacks, with 31.1% from traumatic injuries and 8.8% due to strokes.
Heart Attacks Great Danger for Firefighters.

Belgium: French firefighters protest working hours
Uutside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels over controversial working hours legislation.

UK: Firefighters 'face arrest' over warehouse deaths
Several firefighters are facing arrest over a warehouse fire in Warwickshire in which four of their colleagues were killed, the FBU says.

USA: Georgia firefighters test 'fire safe' cigarettes
They're designed to go out if you stop smoking them. Cigarettes cause fires that kill 700 people and injure 3,000 every year in the United States.

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