2009 Fire Awareness Awards recipients

Minister Jennings, Minister Cameron and Philip James from RACV Insurance
with the 2009 Fire Awareness Award and Grant recipients.

Award Winners

Community Award

‘Bellows’ – Bullengarook Community Newspaper – Margaret Boyd
A local project by that helped to increase the fire safety of Margaret Boyd’s rural community by including fire safety messaging in the Bullengarook Community Newspaper.

Education Award

Teenagers in Emergencies – Amy Foster, Jessica Bedggood, Tim Liddell and Sam Montague, students at Maffra Secondary College
These community-minded Year 9 students responded to the information needs of local teenagers to prepare for and respond to emergencies, including bushfires, in their community. They consulted with 160 teenagers in the area and used their feedback when creating their Teenagers in Emergencies booklet that was distributed to teens in their local area. They also organised a practical exercises day at their school where Year 9 students learnt basic bushfire and flood safety skills.

Fire Services Award

Wilsons Promontory Fire Community Engagement – Parks Victoria and DSE
This intensive pro-active community engagement program educated local communities and park visitors about the planned burning program at Wilsons Promontory National Park and also encouraged increased community participation in fire management planning at the park.

Media Award

Wimmera Summer Fire Awareness Media Campaign – ACE Radio 3WM, CFA and DSE
This media campaign over the 2008-09 summer fire season incorporated a suite of pre-recorded fire awareness messages for locals, workers, tourists and travellers in the Wimmera region, as well as live interviews with fire agency staff to inform and educate listeners across the Wimmera about fire safety.

RACV Insurance Award for Excellence

Community Services Training Packages Project – MFB
In this project, MFB led the introduction of a national project to embed basic home fire safety into the national qualifications for community sector workers, with fire safety now a component of the curriculum for the training of community sector workers nationwide.

Note - no Industry or Government Awards were presented in 2009.

GRANT Recipients

RACV Insurance Fire Safety Grant

Teenagers in Emergencies – Maffra Secondary College
The $10,000 RACV Insurance Fire Safety Grant money enabled Maffra Secondary College to distribute the Teenagers in Emergencies booklet more broadly to teens across the Gippsland region. Year 7 and 8 students at the school were also able to participate in a practical exercises day, where they learnt basic fire and flood safety skills.

Note – No Special Incentive Grants were presented in 2009.

Past Winners

2008

• CFA Yarra Area Orana Neighbourhood House, Knoxbrooke Incorporated for Knoxbrooke and Orana Home Fire Safety Program
• Our Lady’s Primary School, Craigieburn for Yellow Safety Day Initiative
• CFA Barwon Corangamite, DSE, Surf Coast Shire and Ecotide Pty Ltd for Wildfire Tourism Engagement Project
• City of Monash, Home and Community Care for Community Care Fire Safety Initiative
• BullEx Australia for Smart, Lean and Green Project
• MFB - Water Recycling Module

Grant Recipients:

• CFA for Yarra Area Hazard House
• Derrinallum P12 College - Home Fire Safety Project

 

2007

• CFA Gippsland Area for Wildfire Management Overlay Models
• Shire of Yarra Ranges, DHS, CFA Yarra Area, Victoria Police Lilydale, DSE Port Philip Region for F.A.S.T. (Flexible, Achievable, Safety and Timely Emergency Management Planning) EMP for Aged Care facilities in the Shire of Yarra Ranges
• Rural City of Wangaratta, DPI, DSE, Department of Corrections, Dhuringal Correctional Centre, Beechworth Correctional Centre, Shire of Mansfield, Benalla Rural City Council for Landmate Fencing Team
• ABC Regional Radio for Community awareness and information during the 2006-07 Great Divide Fire

Grant Recipients:

• CFA Outer Metro Norwest for Digital Fire Training Simulator
• Kaniva College for Kaniva College Safety Projects

 

2006

• Dandenong Ranges Music Council for The Fire Cycle
• Ararat Community College, Year 12 VCE drama class for Golden Sky
• CFA and DSE for Bendigo District Deliberately Lit Fire Reduction program
• MFB and Victorian Aboriginal Health Service for Reflective Community Art on Fire Trucks
• Least Waste for Fire Safe composting
• City of Monash for Ethnic Seniors Fire Safety Awareness Program
• Clint Stanaway (Channel 9 News) and MFB for Downlight DANGERS

Grant Recipients:

• Halls Gap Community Safety Sub-Committee for Bushfire Tear-off Information Resource

 

2005

• David Asquith & Department of Education and Training for Education Emergency Management System Template
• Deakin University for Fire and the Australian Environment
• Pyalong Restoration Group for ‘Up the Creek’
• DSE for Memorandum of Understanding: Indigenous Protocols for Fire in East Gippsland
• MFB for Horn of Africa Women: Staying Safe project
• CFA for Guidelines for their publication Operating Private Equipment at Fires
• ABC Goulburn Murray for ‘Are You Ready?’ Radio program
• Halls Gap Community Safety Committee for Halls Gap Fire Preparedness Expo
• MFB, Energy Safe Victoria, Victorian Worksafe and CFA for ‘Take on the Critics’ project
• John Schauble for The Australian Bushfire Safety Guide and suite of media articles

Grant Recipients - inaugural

• Victorian Arabic Social Services for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities: Enhancing Participation in Fire Safety.

 

2004

• Moira Fahy, ABC for documentary ‘Black Friday’
• Hume Employment Service for Fireforce
• Ian Mannix, ABC Radio
• Sandringham College for ‘Bushfire and Australian Adventure’ project
• MFB for Fire Ed for Preps
• MFB and Victorian Aboriginal health Service Co-op for Victoria’s Health Service Carer’s Program
• DSE, DPI and Parks Victoria for Bushfire Recovery Program
• CFA, DSE for Victorian Bushfire Information Line
• AAMI for 2004 AAMI Firescreen Index

 

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