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On Friday 6^th February DFES issued a call out at 01.54 am to a tree/grass/shrub fire at Summer Brace.
Volunteers from Yallingup Rural and our sister brigade, Yallingup Coastal, responded swiftly to quell the spread. Coastal were first on the scene and already had the flames mainly under control when our Rural team arrived. The work, however, was far from over. As we have previously reported, a vital part of dealing with a bush fire is the prevention of re-ignition, and the teams were fully deployed throughout the night, ensuring a complete ‘blackout’ of the area.

Heavy Machinery support was called and supplied by City of Busselton to track and contain the fire area on the southern side.

Food and provisions for the firefighters were delivered with the kind assistance of the City of Busselton rangers.
Our team returned to the Yallingup Rural Fire Station on Caves Road at midday, having completed the job to satisfaction.

On Jan 12^th, Yallingup Rural attended a fire in an electricity pole top at Moses Rock.

A team from Wilyabrup joined them. Once the safety of all concerned was assured by Western Power disconnecting the electricity supply, the incident was swiftly dealt with.

Wilyabrup dealt with the related scrub fire at the foot of the pole, and the photo below shows Angela, one of our women firefighters, in action, extinguishing the pole fire.

This was Angela’s maiden call out to a live incident (note the pristine clean uniform 😊). Her regular attendance at training paid off, and the pole top was fully extinguished before further scrub fires started.

Our Brigade, Yallingup Rural, receives support from, and gives support to our sister Brigades when the call goes out. This happened on Monday, 29^th December 2025, when a major fire at Boddington needed extra resources and YRVBFB Fire Control Officer, Mark Fisher, contacted brigade members for volunteers to relieve the weary crews who had been fighting the fire.

Blacking out is a major part of dealing with a blaze. After the intense flames have been brought under control, meticulous attention must be paid to extinguishing all remaining traces of smouldering embers, especially in hot, dry, and windy conditions. Re-ignition of an  “extinguished”  fire is a real risk.

Two of our volunteers, Mike Gray and Andy Jones, both of whom had already been involved in the Quindalup fire on Christmas day, just four days earlier, stepped up again and set off at 8.20 a.m. on the Monday.

The YRVBFB 3.4 heavy-duty truck picked up a member of the Sussex VBFB to augment the crew. They then proceeded to meet up with the 3.4 truck from the Vasse Brigade and travelled to the fire ground, where they were swiftly deployed on blacking out duties with other Brigades for the rest of the day.

The team overnighted at Boddington mine site camp, returning to the fire ground at 8.00 a.m. the next morning for further blacking out.
With the job well done, the team returned to the Yalls Rural Fire Station after a three-hour drive, and were able to sign off duty on Tuesday at 3.45 p.m.

On Christmas Day we have a bunch of stalwarts  who register to be “on call”. We haven’t had to call on anyone for many years (estimates range from 14 years to 20 years) but 2025 was different.

Call to turn out to a scrub fire at the intersection of Quindalup Siding and Vasse-Yallingup Siding came at 13.59 on the 25^th December.

Nine of our Brigade stepped up. All but one had already enjoyed some of their Christmas lunch, and all three of our appliances were swiftly sent into action.

The good news was that, thanks to the prompt and efficient action of a couple of local farmers who had their own ute-based water tanks, our team was able to stand down very soon after they arrived at the fire ground. The quick action by alert locals averted the need to combat what could have become a major conflagration, and we send our thanks to this community in general for the high level of bushfire awareness and preparedness demonstrated.

Thursday, 11^th December 2025, the YRVBFB were called out at 11.00 to assist our sister brigade, Dunsborough, with a fire in the vineyard on the corner of Biddle Road and Yungarra Drive. All Yallingup Rural appliances were involved, the 3×4 and 4×4 heavy trucks, as well as the Light Tanker, which operated inside the vineyard.

Air support was also called in (see videos). The fire was contained to the vineyard, and a substantial amount of mopping up was required to ensure no re-ignition.

Within the Brigade, as part of our own preparations for the season, all firefighters need to formally requalify to fight fires. This is an annual requirement regardless of seniority or length of service and is in the interests of the public and for the safety of our own personnel.
You may see several appliances and personnel around the area as we practice our skills in dealing with fires classified as Rural Urban Interface (or RUI) situations. We have been fortunate and very much appreciate the response from our local community in generously allowing us to enter their properties to hone and refresh our RUI skills in the coming weeks.
The first of these RUI sessions will be on Tuesday, 21^st October, and we will remind you again ahead of a second training currently planned for Tuesday 18^th November.

As always, thank you all for your continued cooperation and support.