Kalamunda Volunteer
Fire & Rescue.
Station 118

Kalamunda Fire & Rescue Service is an entirely volunteer station, with up to 40 members, and is part of the Fire & Rescue Service of Western Australia. As part of this service, we protect areas of Kalamunda, Lesmurdie, Gooseberry Hill, Walliston, and Maida Vale. We can be responded to anything from a smell of smoke in a house, to scrub and bush fires, traffic accidents, hazardous materials incidents, and on the rare occasion, an exploding fireworks factory.

We have also attended large fires as far as Albany, Serpentine, Neerabup, and Whiteman Park. This usually involves only our Light Tanker, or a second light tanker which has been assigned over the summer months, but we have had full turnout under emergency conditions to Neerabup in 2001, as well as other out of area reponses.
Our station is located in Central Rd, Kalamunda. This is in the hills, about 20 minutes drive from Perth. Our reponse area is surrounded by National Parks and other bush and scrubland, providing a high risk in the bushfire period, and a large number of incidents involving these areas of native vegetaion.

Kalamunda FRS has teams who have competed in Road Accident Rescue Competitions, Service and other competitions, always giving their best not only on the fireground, but off it as well. Kalamunda Road Accident Rescue Team has competed in National and local/State competitions including the Western Rescue Competition involving teams from throughout the Australasia region, with some good results. These competitions provide an exciting challenge for the firefighters involved, as well as the opportunity to discuss and learn about new skills, equipment and techniques, which have been brought back to the community and assisted in many incidents the brigade attends.

For several years, Kalamunda FRS has participated in a new service competition being introduced to the more traditionally oriented Easter Championships. The service competition involves performing tasks that are currently being used in service, racing against other teams and the clock. The competition has been changed several times, trying to determine the format of the event for the future. Kalamunda has an extrememly good record in this competition and looks forward to seeing the event grow. Members of this competition team also attended the National Firefighting Championships held in Queensland in late 2005. THis was the first time that the National Event had included teams from Western Australia, and while the team did not bring home any prizes, the team performed well, and showed some promising skill against formidable competition.