Country Fire Authority (CFA)Rescue and Recovery
Warnings & Advice Information Hotline Community Meetings
Total Fire Bans Fire Restrictions Can I or Can't I Fire Danger Period
Volunteering Career Firefighting Lateral Entry Positions Vacant CFA Medals
What we do Our Structure Locations History Fire Star Training Equipment Funding Strategic Direction Supporting CFA
Your Home Summer Fire Safety Farms and Property Building a Home Community Programs Check your Hot Spots
Dangerous Goods Emergency Plans False Alarms Farms and Property Fire Equipment Forest Industry Gas Safety Inspections Training
Fire Prevention Roadside Management Land Use Planning Emergency Management
CK and Friends Activities Project Information Junior Volunteers
Programs Resources Curriculum Maps Emergency Planning
Fireman photo

About CFA

CFA is one of the world’s largest volunteer-based emergency management organisations. The team comprises more than 59,000 volunteers, supported by over 400 career fire fighters and officers and more than 700 career support and administrative staff.

Situated in Victoria, CFA covers an area of more than 150,182 square kilometres of land covering 2.5 million people. This area includes more than 980,000 homes, and covers all of rural and regional Victoria, including provincial cities and towns (except State forests and National Parks).

The area also includes more than one million residents in outer Melbourne suburbs such as Frankston and Dandenong, and key growth suburbs such as Cranbourne, Melton and Werribee.

CFA divides the land covered into nine CFA Areas and 20 Regions. Across these Areas there are more than 1200 CFA brigades across the state and they carry out a wide range of duties.

CFA brigades respond to a range of different incidents and CFA broader activities include community education and fire investigation.

The ties between CFA and state government, local government, industry and brigades are essential to the successful operation of CFA. As a community service organisation, CFA brigades are strongly supported by their local communities in responding to meet Victoria's fire safety and emergency management needs.

Group of Firefighters

Victoria The Place To Be Logo