ACT Bushfire and Emergency Services Taskforce Returns from South Coast FireDecember 2002

- Press Release 2

The first taskforce of A.C.T. Bushfire and Emergency Service volunteers will return to Canberra at 1.30pm this afternoon (Monday 9^th December 2002), following three days of assisting N.S.W. colleagues fight bushfires on the South Coast. Thirty-Two volunteers will return to the Emergency Services Bureau Headquarters after working three exhausting night shifts from 7pm to 7am conducting back-burning operations and fire suppression. The crews were based at Bateman's Bay and Moruya, and assisted in an area approximately 10 kilometres out of Moruya.

A further thirty-two volunteers continue to assist their NSW colleagues today, and are expected to return at 10.00pm this evening (Monday 9^th December 2002).