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Recording the history of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Getting started Why not have a look at the fleet list, or the list of fire stations? See the current appliance locations. To browse all articles on MFBWiki, see Categories. You'll need to create an account or log in before you view and edit pages. Find out more about the Metropolitan Fire Brigade at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Latest news June 12, 2012: R44 has been moved to FS43 and T44 to FS47 due to refurbishment works at FS44. June 1, 2012: The new HAZMAT - Car 260 - has been delivered to the MFB. April 20, 2012: The new BA38 - Car 250 - has been delivered to the MFB. December 15, 2011: The MFBWiki software has been upgraded. Report any problems here. December, 2011: The trial of the Rosenbauer pumper (Car 099) has concluded. December 8, 2011: Fire Station 1 (Eastern Hill) temporarily closed due to a diesel leak in the building November 17, 2011: New Fire Station 30 (Templestowe) is commissioned. October 21, 2011: Rosenbauer Pumper enters trial service as Pumper 44. October 5, 2011: Training begins for the Rosenbauer Pumper trial appliance at Fire Station 44 (Sunshine). August 21, 2011: Today marks 20 years since the Coode Island fire. May 17, 2011: Car 165 up for auction at Manheim. April 13, 2011: Car 160 & Car 164 enter service as Decon 38 & Transporter 44. March 28, 2011: Zone re-structure begins. New Eastern District commences. Help us out Before you start editing, please have a look at the help pages, and you'll need to create an account. We currently have a number of tasks you can help us with, see the To-do list

Featured photo Pumper 47A and Dandenong Pumper 1 attending an incident in Noble Park, November 2011. Photo by Bobby CERNY. Featured article The Keys Road Factory Fire started shortly before 9:00 AM on April 18, 2006 in the Select-O-Pedic Bedding factory in Keys Road, Moorabbin. The fire was escalated to seventh alarm and caused an estimated $30,000,000 damage, making it the biggest fire since the Brooklyn Meatworks Fire in 2001. Read more...