All figures applicable to
2010-11 financial year
| Incident Response (Career and Volunteer Fire Services) |
| Fires in a structure |
1,567 |
| Landscape fires, vegetation fires |
6,546 |
| Other property fires |
3,753 |
| Road crash rescues |
2,283 |
| Non-fire rescue calls |
302 |
| Hazardous Materials emergencies (including petrol or flammable spills and gas leaks) |
908 |
| False alarms (system initiated) |
9,283 |
Other emergency responses – including support to flood, storms, tempest and other natural disasters, good intent and malicious false alarms |
3,741 |
| Total |
28,383 |
| Incident Response (State Emergency Services) |
| Cliff rescue |
5 |
| Cyclone |
14 |
| Earthquake |
1 |
| Firefighter support (includes all fire incidents) |
36 |
| Flood |
24 |
| Road crash rescue incidents (not attended by fire services) |
25 |
| Land and air search |
137 |
| Storm |
142 |
| Temporary building repairs |
129 |
| Tsunami |
0 |
| Miscellaneous support |
170 |
| Total |
683 |
| Incident Response (Volunteer Marine Rescue Services) |
Marine search and rescue – Group authorised |
91 |
Marine search and rescue – Police authorised |
436 |
Standby events |
82 |
| Total |
609 |
| Incident Response (Aviation Services) |
Aerial rescue – RAC Rescue Helicopter (includes incidents and flying hours where a fee for service was charged) |
423 |
| Aerial fire suppression (Type3) |
129 |
| Aerial fire suppression (Type1) |
85 |
| FESA aerial intelligence helicopter |
41 |
The Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia (FESA) supports over 32,000 volunteers through:
| Volunteers supported by FESA* |
Volunteers |
Number of Brigades, Groups or Units |
Operational |
Support |
Total |
Volunteer Bush Fire Service |
585 |
25,165 |
613 |
25,778 |
Volunteer Fire and Rescue |
88 |
1,971 |
171 |
2,142 |
State Emergency Service |
65 |
1,950 |
44 |
1,994 |
Volunteer Marine Rescue Services |
34 |
1,298 |
20 |
1,318 |
Volunteer Emergency Service |
16 |
621 |
4 |
625 |
Volunteer Fire Service |
9 |
370 |
7 |
377 |
FESA Education and Heritage Centre |
1 |
0 |
18 |
18 |
Total |
798 |
31,375 |
877 |
32,252 |
*FESA is also the host organisation to more than 2,000 Emergency Services cadets and juniors in brigades, groups and units.
| Staff |
FESA staff (full time) |
1,344 (includes 1,076 career firefighters) |
| FESA staff (part time & casual) |
40 |