Victoria faces billion-dollar fire truck funding crisis | 7NEWS

Victoria’s Auditor-General has revealed a billion-dollar funding shortfall in the state’s fire services, with a fleet of 3,068 fire trucks requiring $1.5 billion over nine years for critical replacements and upgrades, but only a quarter of that funding is available. The report found none of the fire authorities—Fire Rescue Victoria, the Country Fire Authority, or the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action—are completing all scheduled maintenance, with 57.1 per cent of the fleet at least 15 years old and 35.2 per cent aged 20 years or more. The United Firefighters Union says they have been warning about the deterioration for years, while the government has only allocated 12.1 per cent of the estimated funding needed in the last three state budgets.

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