Over the past four weeks, 20 QFES and four Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) personnel spent time at Whyte Island undertaking their Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) category two training. USAR is a skill that operates under the Australia-1 Disaster Assistance Response Team (AUS-1 DART) and is the process of searching a site or collapsed building to locate trapped persons and then bring them to safety. After the four week training that included a 48 hour continuous exercise, the personnel will joi

33K views · 638 reactions | 105 recruit Queensland Fire and Rescue firefighters. 30 instructors. Six recruit courses. One School of Fire and Emergency Services. This is a record number of recruits at the School, each one training to protect Queenslanders in the face of fires, emergencies and disasters. | Queensland Fire Department | Facebook