July 1st, 2024Caroline Springs gets keys to new tanker

The Caroline Springs Fire Brigade has been handed the keys to a new heavy tanker in recent days.

Member for Kororoit Luba Grigorovitch MP had the honour of officially handing over the new heavy tanker at the station last month.

Caroline Springs Captain Anthony Jenkins said the new heavy tanker is a next generation tanker and will enhance the brigade’s ability to serve the community.

“It has additional water carrying capacity, it’s higher off the ground and it has better capabilities as far as four wheel drive and off road vehicles,” Anthony said.

“It’s much easier for our members to operate and it’s a lot safer with new rollover protection cages.”

“We trained tirelessly for weeks so that we’d be ready to use it as soon as it was handed to us.”

“We had the tanker throughout summer and we took it to one of the strike team deployments at Beaufort.

“We put it through its paces, saved a couple of houses and hit the Beaufort fire head on in Raglan. It was a huge benefit to us.”

Caroline Springs is one of 48 brigades to receive a new, replacement heavy tanker funded in the CFA Capability Funding package.

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