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Here at the Museum, we focus on local firefighting history, but did you know that floods are the most expensive type of natural disaster we face? The costliest summer for floods in Australia was 2010-11 across Lockyer Valley, Ipswich and Brisbane which cost 7.45 billion dollars! This week, we’re looking at the town of Narrabri, which due to its geography, is no stranger to a flood or two. Narrabri is located in the Northwest Slopes of New South Wales on Kamilaroi country, abo

We’re getting closer and closer to the Museum’s Heritage Day on November 21st! We’ll be pulling vehicles out of storage as voted on by you, so we thought we would take the opportunity to deep dive into one of these featured vehicles. This week, we’re taking a look at the Austral Denning Firepac FB3500. You’d be forgiven for being unfamiliar with Austral, a company which has gone by several other names at different points in history and operated only from 1945 to 1998. The com

*This information is an extract from the colour-book produced by the Museum of Fire's Heritage Team to celebrate the opening of the new Lambton Fire Station at an event held in 2016. This book included the history of five stations. These were New Lambton, Lambton, Hamilton, Adamstown and Broadmeadow Fire Brigade's. Should you wish to use any of the information and pictures provided we ask that you please reference the Museum correctly and contact the Museum for permission whe

The work that we get done at the Museum wouldn’t be possible without each and every one of our team members. You may be familiar with some of our front-of-house team members, one of whom we will be getting to know a bit better this week. Monika, the Museum’s Senior Retail Assistant, is a warm, friendly face who’s always up for a chat. She’s across all things retail and runs a tight ship at the Museum’s shop. You may have also seen her husband Colin who often runs the fire eng