User:Tpaynter/Fire brigades melbourne

Fire fighting in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia has been performed by multiple forms of organisation since settlement. The units within organisations have had many constitutions and internal structures. Historical developments, including population growth and distribution, have been the major motivators of the different forms.

Among the forms of organisation include -
 * single units
 * head unit with sub units
 * management unit with head operating unit and sub units

1891 saw a major change in fire fighting arrangement with Government legislation creating the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board (MFB). The MFB was charged with ...... within the metropolitan fire district(MFD). This covered area of approx ..... largely contained in an arc 20 miles ( km) of the Melbourne GPO. Within this area resided Melbourne's then population of ...... Settlement outside this area was in separate towns and cities generally more than 30 miles from the centre of Melbourne or was widely scattered in small agricultural or pastoral settlements. Compliementary legislation created a Country Fire Brigades Board (CFBB) covering the towns and cities outside the MFD. Rural areas, other than State Forests, had no central fire authority. State Forests were protected by the operations of the Forestry Commission.

--Tpaynter (talk) 11:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)