{"id":13651,"date":"2021-11-02T01:19:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2021-11-02T01:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:19:49","slug":"new-rfs-helicopters-and-aviation-centre-of-excellence-for-regional-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/new-rfs-helicopters-and-aviation-centre-of-excellence-for-regional-nsw\/","title":{"rendered":"New RFS helicopters and aviation centre of excellence for regional NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fix-footer\">\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<section class=\"s-text-block\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"c-text-block\">Regional communities across NSW are set to benefit from an enhanced emergency response and investment, as the NSW Government bases NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) multi-purposed firefighting helicopters at three key regional locations and officially turns the first sod for the RFS Aviation Centre of Excellence.<br \/>\nPremier Dominic Perrottet, Deputy Premier Paul Toole and Minister for Police and Emergency Services David Elliott joined the RFS Commissioner Rob Rogers today to inspect the new base for one of the three helicopters at Dubbo Airport and turn the first sod at the RFS Training Academy.<br \/>\nMr Perrottet said construction of the new $5.6 million RFS Aviation Centre of Excellence will commence in early 2022, providing a significant boost to the RFS emergency response capabilities.<br \/>\n\u201cThe NSW Government is committed to provide the resources and facilities to protect people across the State. The Aviation Centre of Excellence will house four state-of-the-art aviation simulators as well as two dedicated training spaces, 27 accommodation rooms and other amenities,\u201d Mr Perrottet said.<br \/>\nMr Toole said the new Aviation Training Facility is part of the NSW Government\u2019s $480 million commitment in response to recommendations of the independent NSW Bushfire Inquiry, including an increase to the capacity of the RFS aviation training.<br \/>\n\u201cNot only will this help drive jobs and growth in regional NSW but it will ensure resources are well positioned to respond in the event of a fire or other emergency in the Central West,\u201d Mr Toole said.<br \/>\nMr Elliott said the three multi-purposed helicopters have been pre-positioned at Tumut, Dubbo and Coffs Harbour to allow for rapid deployment regionally during the bush fire season.<br \/>\n\u201cThe RFS aviation capability has grown over recent years and is now the biggest firefighting aviation fleet in the country,\u201d Mr Elliott said.<br \/>\nRFS Commissioner Rob Rogers said that the strategic placement of the RFS aviation fleet in three regional locations is particularly important.<br \/>\n\u201cThese aircraft will provide additional reassurance for regional NSW communities. It will not only support the NSW RFS during firefighting operations, but also provide other regional emergency services with real time high definition video streams and assist in search and rescue missions,\u201d Mr Rogers said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"s-footer\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"footer-content\">\n<div class=\"footer-text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"footer-bottom\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional communities across NSW are set to benefit from an enhanced emergency response and investment, as the NSW Government bases NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) multi-purposed firefighting helicopters at three key regional locations and officially turns the first sod for the RFS Aviation Centre of Excellence. Premier Dominic Perrottet, Deputy Premier Paul Toole and Minister &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/new-rfs-helicopters-and-aviation-centre-of-excellence-for-regional-nsw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New RFS helicopters and aviation centre of excellence for regional NSW&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}