00:00The government has literally taken offline the G-Wagon and Unimog fleets for Forest Fire Management Victoria
00:07right on the edge of the fire season. That's a significant concern, that our Crownland firefighting fleet has been significantly impacted.
00:15The government needs to come out today and explain what the implications of that are, how they're dealing with it
00:21and how they're going to get those firefighting vehicles back on stream.
00:25It's only literally last Friday that the Premier was talking about the coming fire season.
00:29And highlighting that it is going to be potentially a difficult fire season.
00:34If that's the case, we need to have every available asset that we can.
00:38It is a concern to me as the Shadow Minister for Emergency Services that FFMV is saying we might need to rely on CFA volunteer brigades to provide backup and to provide support.
00:49They're already under the pump. We know that there's a significant reduction in the CFA budget over recent years.
00:56And to be honest, CFA volunteers are not feeling terribly happy with the government at the moment with the emergency services tax.
01:02We've got Victorians charged $3 billion over the next couple of years on this new emergency services tax,
01:08including to part fund the Forest Fire Management Victoria.
01:11And now to hear that these facilities are offline, these vehicles are offline.
01:16That's a significant concern and the government should be addressing it as quickly as possible.
01:23rogen is ongoing.
01:30So that that's a incorporated into these facilities are actually the same occasions.
01:36We're going to start testing and wheelchairs this afternoon to attack somewhere along the road and catch the engine.
01:38Then, let's see what that sounds familiar about.
01:41Unless maybe there's a Circus minoriyah where doing this milk vehicle,
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