Stories of our Beneficiaries

Louise was a dedicated, passionate and experienced firefighter of over 20 years and nothing could prepare us for the possibility that she would not be coming home.

K.I. resident, and senior CFS volunteer, Shane Leahy almost lost everything in the 2019/20 bushfires

Fighting a fire, losing everything and starting again ... Tim Buck's Story on Kangaroo Island

Crushed, hopeless and helpless - that was Rachel Ireland's overwhelming reaction when her husband David, a CFS volunteer rang to say 'the house is gone'.

Ben and family needed to rebuild their family home after the Sampson Flat fires in 2015

Brad, who was 21 at the time, tried to outrun the fire but was forced to run through a wall of flames to reach unburnt ground.

CFS Volunteers tried desperately to save Captain Chris Coombe family home after a fire broke out as a result of an electrical fault

​As a CFS volunteer firefighter Jim Donnelly has devoted himself to protecting the properties of others, but in a cruel twist of fate there was one property he couldn’t save, his own.