Wednesday, 8 June 2022

Tarneit electorate fire services

Ms CONNOLLY (Tarneit) (19:03): (6407) My adjournment is for the Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Services in the other place, and the action I seek is that the Attorney-General join me in Tarneit to visit the wonderful Tarneit FRV and Truganina CFA brigades that service our wonderful electorate. Having had the pleasure of working closely with them over the last four years, I have to say these brigades are a fantastic bunch of volunteer and career firefighters who work their absolute guts out to keep our community safe from fires. As the Attorney would be aware, both of these brigades have benefitted from the support of our government, with Tarneit FRV receiving a brand new fire station that opened in 2019 thanks to a very significant investment from our government. This station is now home to a fantastic brigade of career firefighters who were previously attached to the Hoppers Crossing brigade.

The same holds for our wonderful Truganina CFA, an all-volunteer brigade. I have met many of those fabulous men and women, and I have to say the way in which they have banded together over the last couple of years during lockdown and gone on to assist our community in their time of need has been absolutely outstanding. Truganina CFA’s new station is now finally on its way. We are building a brand new fire station in my electorate thanks to a grant from our government to the CFA to purchase land. In addition to this, the brigade has also received over $184 000 from the volunteer emergency services equipment program over the years, along with a $70 000 grant for a new tanker, which was funded in 2019 and which I was very lucky to hand over the keys to. Our community has been very well supported when it comes to our emergency services, and it would be a great opportunity for the Attorney-General to meet with these brigades and see firsthand the work that our government has done in this space.