NSW Rural Fire Service Library
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Looking for a particular post-bushfire inquiry or review? The NSW RFS Library updates regularly their webpage Bush Fire Post Event Reviews and Inquiries with new publications and websites from across all states and territories in Australia. Most documents are available online and available to download.
Click here to browse the collection of inquiries and reviews beginning with the 1939 Victorian Royal Commission report through to current 2019-2020 national and state bushfire inquiry websites.
NSW Rural Fire Service Library closed temporarily to vistors
The NSW Rural Fire Service Library is closed temporarily to public visitors from today, 17th March 2020, to try to help slow the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus within the community.
At present the library is still open for answering information queries, providing journal articles and reports from our collection, and sending out loans via the postal system to our many members.
Members can also access our eBooks, audiobooks and digital magazines online – just ask your NSW RFS librarian how.
Search our Bush Fire Bulletin (with Sitrep) online through Trove
The NSW Rural Fire Service, with the National Library of Australia, has digitised the entire collection of the Bush Fire Bulletin dating back to September 1952. All editions of the historical archived collection of the Bush Fire Bulletin are available online and fully searchable.
Unfortunately, there was no coverage of our bulletin in the mid 1970s. This gap no longer exists with the digitisation of the Sitrep Bulletin from 1976 to 1978. During these years the State Emergency Services of New South Wales and the Bush Fire Council of New South Wales produced this joint publication that incorporated both our Bush Fire Bulletin and the SES Bulletin.
Browse the Sitrep publication online using this link or search the Bush Fire Bulletin and Sitrep in Trove by using the search box in the image above and clicking Go. More information on searching can be located on the Bush Fire Bulletin website or contacting your library.
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Farmer : recipes and stories from the land / by Vassallo, Jody,
Publication: . 255 pages : 28 cm. ISBN: 099424066X
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Leadership & management : theory & practice / by Cole, Kris, Leadership and management : theory and practice
Publication: MELBOURNE : CENGAGE LEARNING AUSTRLIA, 2019. . xxiii, 1096 pages : 26 cm. ISBN: 0170403858
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HBR's 10 must reads : on design thinking / Harvard Business Review's ten must reads 2020
Publication: . 167 pages : 21 cm. ISBN: 1633698807
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Engine company fireground operations / by Angulo, Raul A,
Publication: . pages cm. 22 ISBN: 1284023850
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A future in flames / by Clode, Danielle.
Publication: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing : 2010. . viii, 304 p. : 24 cm. ISBN: 052285723X
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Lesson learned from the Tham Luang search and rescue operations a success story of 18 days international mission on flooded cave rescue /
Publication: . 207 pages : 23 cm. ISBN: 9744586605
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Vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards /
Publication: . pages cm. 21 ISBN: 1107154898
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Man down : a guide for men on mental health / by Hoare, Charlie,
Publication: . 1 volume ; 18 cm. ISBN: 1787832503
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125 years of care : the Children's Hospital at Westmead : 1880-2005 / by Cornwall, Jennifer. One hundred and twenty five years of care
Publication: Bondi Junction, N.S.W. : Focus Publishing, c2005. . 128 p. : 31 cm. ISBN: 192115618X
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Introduction to emergency management / by Haddow, George D.,
Publication: . xxi, 533 pages : 24 cm. ISBN: 0128171391
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How charts lie : getting smarter about visual information / by Cairo, Alberto,
Publication: . xii, 226 pages : 25 cm. ISBN: 1324001569
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Are we there yet? : the digital transformation of government and the public sector in Australia / by Stewart-Weeks, Martin,
Publication: . xii, 316 pages : 23 cm. ISBN: 0648510735
Contact us and opening hours
Our librarian is Katie Vandine.
The library is located on the third floor of the NSW RFS Head Office at 4 Murray Rose Ave, Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127.
You can contact the library via phone on 02 8741 5455 or email at rfs.library@rfs.nsw.gov.au
Our postal address is Locked Bag 17, Granville NSW 2142. This address can be used for returning books.
The library is open Monday to Friday. Closed weekends and public holidays.
If you are visiting, please contact the Library to check opening times.
NSW RFS training manuals
Use the search box below to locate hardcopy editions of NSW RFS training manuals and workbooks that are available for loan from your Library. Manuals and workbooks are available for a month’s loan.
Looking for something light to read. Your NSW RFS library, in conjunction with the Health, Safety and Welfare department, provide all members access to our Flipster online magazine collection.
With Flipster you can read the latest issues of our health and fitness magazines in addition to other titles such as PCWorld, Wild, Popular Science and National Geographic. Quickly access a magazine in your browser, or use the Flipster app on your mobile device to download a magazine to read later - even when you're offline! Contact the library for password and instructions.
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