Thursday, 6 February 2025

 Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:51): (1348) My question is for the Minister for Emergency Services. Over the summer break I was fortunate enough to visit two of the fire stations in the electorate of Ringwood, namely, Nunawading and Ringwood itself. I was aghast of course to find that neither station actually had the appliances that they are gazetted to have. This should concern every Victorian. It should certainly concern every local in my electorate of Ringwood. At Ringwood station they have now not had a teleboom for some 12 months, so for some 12 months they have not had one of the two critical appliances they need to fight fires. The other appliance was a pumper tanker. The pumper tanker they had in their fire station was commissioned in 1998. It is 27 years old, and it was non-functioning when it was on automatic mode. In the Nunawading station they do not have a rehab unit – one of two units they have in their station house. I would like to know from the minister when both of these stations will have the appliances they are gazetted to have.