See inside the Forest Fire Management Victoria Base Camp

The Courier

See inside the Forest Fire Management Victoria Base Camp set to hold about 300 people among the fire crews travelling into the region to help battle bushfires. Footage: CFA.

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00:00 From last Sunday night we got the call to say can we set it up Monday so we've set the base camp up

00:04 in a very short time frame to scale up to house 300 firefighters and those crews are a combination

00:10 of Forest Fire Management, Country Fire Authority and partners from RFS New South Wales that have

00:15 come in to help us. I'm Wayne Rigg, Acting Assistant Chief Fire Officer. I'm from West Region here in

00:21 Ballarat in the west of the state and we're managing a bunch of fires across Grampians

00:26 region at the moment including the fire at Bayendeen and that's what the base camp's set up for.

00:30 We've set up accommodation and food and everything that's needed here at the base camp and

00:35 in partnership with the City of Ballarat we did that in a very very short time frame.

00:39 Everyone's come together to make it work really well.

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