Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) is a modern fire and rescue service that meets the needs of twenty-first century Victoria.

The new organisation was established on 1 July 2020 as part of Victoria’s Fire Services Reforms.

The Fire Rescue Victoria Act 1958 is available on the Victorian Parliament’s Legislation and Bills website.

We serve and protect communities across Melbourne and Victoria’s major regional centres.

We respond to fires, complex rescues, road crashes, emergency medical calls and hazardous chemical spills.

We work as one in the emergency services sector.

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Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) has initiated a project to study the possible utilisation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) in Beyond-Visual-Line-Of-Sight (BVLOS) situations, to support the management of fire, rescue and other emergency incidents.

The project includes an major, one-off operational trial where it is planned that RPAS will be deployed BVLOS to simulated emergency incidents.

It is planned that the outcomes of the operational trial will, ultimately:

• guide the development and implementation of practices and procedures to underpin and facilitate safe and effective use of BVLOS RPAS to support the management of actual fire, rescue and emergency events; and
• inform future decisions regarding the selection and utilisation of RPAS capabilities to support the management of actual fire, rescue and emergency events in the future.

There will be a briefing session held ****TBC*****

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