Golden Beach Fire Brigade

25/04/2026

Golden Beach Fire Brigade commemorating our ANZACs at a very moving service at Golden Beach this morning.
LEST WE FORGET

24/04/2026

This year’s gorgeous Wreath for the Brigade to lay at the Commemorative Service at Golden Beach tomorrow. Our thanks to Kate from Oz Wildflowers for this amazing arrangement ❤️
Lest We Forget

19/04/2026

Just a reminder: Golden and Paradise Beach have a Residential Overlay - To conduct a Burnoff on your property, you will require a Wellington Shire Council Permit to Burn … Fire Permits Vic is another avenue to take. You must have the Permit on you at all times and extinguish the fire completely before leaving.

15/04/2026

08/04/2026

⛽🔥 SAVING A FEW $$$ AT THE PUMP COULD COST YOU YOUR ENTIRE HOME 🛑🏠

We know fuel prices are crazy high, but hoarding multiple jerry cans of petrol in your garage isn't a "life hack." It is an explosive disaster waiting to happen.

As a fire service, we deal with volatile chemicals daily. We are telling you bluntly: your family home or shed is not an approved bulk fuel storage facility. By treating it like one, you are risking your life, your home, your finances, and us. We don't want our crews unknowingly walking into a house that you've turned into a highly explosive trap.

💥 WHAT FUEL DOES TO A FIRE:

Throwing petrol on a small fire causes an instant, violent explosion. Now, imagine a small electrical fire starts in your garage and reaches those plastic jerry cans while you are sleeping, oblivious.

▫️ It primes an invisible explosion: One loose lid or faulty fuel container allows heavy, invisible petrol vapours to pool on the floor, waiting for a single spark. With petrol (unleaded) it is the fumes that are highly flammable, not the liquid.
If you can smell petrol you are in danger of an explosion. Just a small static spark or turning on a light can result in disaster!

▫️ It creates a monster: The fire doesn't spread slowly. The plastic melts, the fuel spills, and it instantly turns your garage into a roaring inferno of huge, unsurvivable heat.

▫️ No time to escape: A normal fire might give you a few minutes to get your family out. Storing large amounts of fuel slams that window shut, swallowing your house in an unstoppable, fast-moving fireball—likely before someone even finishes calling 000.

💸 THE FINANCIAL RUIN: YOUR INSURANCE WILL ABANDON YOU

The Insurance Council of Australia has been crystal clear. As a part of standard policies, you have a duty to disclose anything that materially changes the risk profile of your property to your insurer.

Stockpiling hazardous, highly flammable liquids changes your risk profile.

▫️ Standard policies have strict conditions for storing bulk hazardous materials.

▫️ If your house burns down and investigators find a makeshift fuel depot, your insurance will be voided.

You thought you were maybe saving some cash at the pump. Instead, you lost your million-dollar home and won't get a single cent back.

⚠️ IS THE RISK WORTH THE REWARD? THE COLD HARD TRUTH.

We are back again laying down the blunt truth on this page for a reason. We are the ones that see the aftermath of things like this. We see the people and families whose lives and finances may never recover. We pull people out of the smouldering wreckage when the worst happens. We give you this information so you understand the brutal reality of what you are risking by storing bulk fuel at your home.

Make no mistake: trying to save money by hoarding fuel is a risk that can cost you absolutely everything.

31/03/2026

Please keep in mind that a Permit to Burn must be obtained Golden and Paradise Beach are in a Residential Overlay and as such a permit is required 365 days of the year. Apply through Wellington Shire or Fire Permits Vic. Please remember that the Permits are not automatically issued and may take up to 10 days

16/02/2026

43 years !

Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the tragic Ash Wednesday Bushfires that devastated many communities accross Victoria on Wednesday 16th February 1983.

Today is a particularly difficult day for the familes and friends of the 75 people who lost their lives in the 180 fires that ravaged Victoria that day. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those loved ones.

The anniversary is also a painful reminder for the many residents and emergency service workers including our own firefighters, who endured so much on that day.

Locally, 21 lives were lost in the Upper Beaconsfield blaze and 6 in the Cockatoo fire. Amongst those 21 in Upper Beaconsfield were 12 CFA firefighters.

They were, from the Narre Warren Fire Brigade CFA; Captain John Minett, Dorothy Balcombe, Lloyd Donovan, Murray Forsyth, Neil Henry, Darrell Wilkes & Keith Busbridge.

Firefighters from the Panton Hill CFA included; Bill Marsden, Peter Singleton, Maurice Atkinson, Stuart Duff and Neville Jeffrey.

A memorial is dedicated to these 12 fireighters in Critchley Parker Jnr Reserve.

Firefighter Osborne "Eddie" Lowen from the Nar Nar Goon Fire Brigade - CFA also tragically lost his life in the Cockatoo fire.

We offer our thanks to all those firefighters who paid the ultimate sacrifice whilst performing so bravely in the line of duty. May they all rest in peace and never be forgotten 💔

Please take a moment today to remember those who lost their lives and to honour the incredible sacrifices and courage of the firefighters, residents and emergency services personnel who all performed so admirably on that tragic day 43 years ago.

Ash Wednesday is day that we will never ever forget.

Upper Beaconsfield Fire Brigade - CFA

10/02/2026

A Total Fire Ban has been declared for the Central, Mallee, North Central, North East, Northern Country, West & South Gippsland and Wimmera districts for Wednesday 11 February 2026.

No fires can be lit, or be allowed to remain alight, in the open air from 12:01 AM until 11:59 PM.

More information is available at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/firebans

10/02/2026

29/01/2026

Our crews did an amazing job ! 🚒🚨🚒🚨🚒🚨🚒🚨🚒🚨🚒🚨