Captain Andrew Swain and other members of the Devon Meadows CFA Leeann Lees, Jake Pringle, Rachel Ahchow, Shaun Adams, Peter Van de Laarschot, Phil Brentnall, Jasmine Mace and Carly Damman are celebrating this week.
Their brigade has received $11,500 in funding from the State Government to purchase a thermal imaging camera.
The Devon Meadows crew applied for the grant money through the Government’s Emergency Services Volunteer Sustainability Grants before Christmas and found out in February that it had been successful.
“This is the first TIC the brigade has ever had so that’s over our 70-year history,” Captain Andrew Swain said.
“Obviously, this piece of equipment in this day and age is very important as we are getting more built up in the suburbs from Cranbourne.”
The camera will be used by the brigade to detect fire hot spots that are not detectable by the human eye so firefighters can concentrate their efforts on making sure the fire is properly extinguished.
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