Tasmania Fire Service

Tasmania Fire Service

Operational area
Country	Australia
State	Tasmania
Agency overview
Established	1 November 1979 (1979-11-01)
Employees	350
Staffing	5000 volunteers
Acting Chief Officer	Jeremy Smith
Facilities and equipment
Brigades	230
Trucks	450 (2008)
Platforms	3
Wildland	Specialty
Light and air	Specialty
Website
www.fire.tas.gov.au

The Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) is the Tasmanian Government agency responsible for fire suppression and control for the state of Tasmania and its surrounding islands.

Established on 1 November 1979 as a result of enacting the Fire Service Act 1979, the TFS superseded the State Fire Authority, the Rural Fires Board and 22 urban fire brigades.

The Callsign system for the Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) Is as follows

The first digit shows the category and the second shows how many of that category are in the brigade

e.g. Hobart 1.2 Is Hobart's second Heavy pumper

• Bushfires in Australia
• Firefighting
• Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council

• (1977) Tasmanian Year Book Hobart, Tas. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Tasmanian Office. ISSN 0082-2116 pp. 566–567 Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting – for the old system details
• (1982) Tasmanian Year Book Hobart, Tas. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Tasmanian Office. ISSN 0082-2116 pp. 437–438 Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting – for the new system

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tasmania Fire Service.

• Official website
• map of fire station locations