Gallery

The work, as it happens

Operational photography from both partners: burns, training days, the fleet and the Hunter Valley base. No stock, no staging.

Operations

In the field

Prescribed burning, fuel management and the crews that run them, on the ground in regional and remote country.

Crew working a backburn through grass and scrub under a smoke haze.
Crew working a low-intensity prescribed burn through grassy bushland, the appliance holding the track behind them.
Moving through smoke on the edge of a prescribed burn.
A prescribed burn after dark, the crew working the fire edge by head torch.
A test burn beside the 4x4 appliance, lit and watched before the main burn.
Running a hose line from a 4x4 appliance on a bush track.
Tractor and slasher opening up a fire trail, with the crew standing by.

Training

National and international programs at the Hunter Valley base, from the classroom to the fire edge.

An international cohort with T7-4 in the engine bay at the end of a training day at the Hunter Valley base.
International program participants with the tankers outside the engine bay at the Hunter Valley base, December 2025.
Drip-torch ignition during a live-fire exercise on a wildfire training program at the Hunter Valley base.
Night briefing over the hand tools before a live-fire exercise on the 2025 international program.
Night live-fire exercise on the 2025 international program: low flame moving through the litter under the trees, the tanker lights behind.
Flame in the understorey during the night live-fire exercise, watched from the control line.
International program participants with the course banner.
Crew briefing beside the tanker before a field exercise on a wildfire training program.
Equipment familiarisation: rakehoes, packs and hand tools laid out for the cohort.
Stretcher carry through bushland during a field exercise.
4WD vehicle recovery exercise beside the T9-2 mitigation ute.
Cutting a control line by hand with rakehoes during a wildfire training exercise.
Working a hose line along the flame front through burnt forest.
Live-fire extinguisher exercise during an emergency response training session.
Refilling a fire-support drone between flights during a field exercise.
Trainees in the six-seat side-by-side buggy outside the lodge, heading out to the training ground.

Vehicles and plant

Hi-Rail tankers, mitigation utes, tractor and mulching plant, and the drone unit, maintained in a state of readiness.

T7-6 and T7-4, the Hi-Rail tankers, on the rail corridor beside a freight wagon during corridor works.
T7-4, a Fuso 4x4 crew-cab Hi-Rail tanker, with its rail guidance wheels raised.
The rear deck of T7-4: pump, hose reel and tank, with the rear rail wheels below.
T7-6, the rail tanker, at night.
T7-6 head on in the engine bay: bull bar, winch and driving lights under the bay lights.
T7-4, the Fuso 4x4 crew-cab Hi-Rail tanker, head on in the engine bay.
T9-5, a Hi-Rail Landcruiser, on a bush track.
T9-2 and T9-3, the mitigation utes, outside the bay.
A ute rigged with a roof cradle for the drone and its cases: the mobile drone unit.
Tracked mulcher on the heavy transporter at the base, ready to move to a job.
Kubota loader working the paddock at the Hunter Valley base.
Pump and controls on a slip-on firefighting unit.

Hunter Valley facility

Classrooms, accommodation, engine bays and bushland on the one property.

The lodge at the Hunter Valley training base: accommodation, communal living and dining on the one property.
The 25-seat training room, open to the yard, with equipment racking along one wall.
The briefing lounge in the lodge.
Communal lounge and games room in the lodge, opening onto the deck.
The engine bay, with the appliances used in training and operations.
Appliances and tractor plant in the covered bay under lights.

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