Country Fire Authority | CFA

CFA is one of the world's largest volunteer-based emergency management organisations. The team comprises more than 59,000 volunteers, supported by over 400 career fire fighters and officers and more than 700 career support and administrative staff.

Situated in Victoria, CFA covers an area of more than 150,182 square kilometres of land covering 2.5 million people. This area includes more than 980,000 homes, and covers all of rural and regional Victoria, including provincial cities and towns (except State forests and National Parks).

The area also includes more than one million residents in outer Melbourne suburbs such as Frankston and Dandenong, and key growth suburbs such as Cranbourne, Melton and Werribee.

CFA divides the land covered into nine CFA Areas and 20 Regions. Across these Areas there are more than 1200 CFA brigades across the state and they carry out a wide range of duties.

Victorian Bushfire Information Hotline: 1800 240 667

See below for Warnings & Advice