Department of Fire and Emergency Services, WA

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) is a Western Australian government department who is responsible for managing fires, natural disasters and emergency situations across the state. The official YouTube channel for DFES was created on 14 September 2012, and is active but uploads videos on an irregular basis.
== Background ==
One of the first emergency services established in Western Australia was the Perth Fire Brigade, founded in 1854https://dfes.wa.gov.au/about-us/our-historyhttps://assets-global.website-files.com/61de5d84c5a92d75c52a9ca6/6392833ce88d627b166bc8f6_Perth_Central_Fire_Station_120_Years_Fire_Service_History.pdf. When the new Perth Central Fire Station opened in 1899 as a result of the Fire Brigades Act of 1898, it led to the establishment of the Western Australian Fire Brigades' Board in 1909, where all remaining fire brigades and stations across the state came under the board's controlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230305113458/https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/education/education-and-heritage-centre#history-and-heritage.
In 1995 the board changed it's name to the Fire and Rescue Service of Western Australia (FRS), then in 1999 the Bush Fire Service (BFS) - which formed under the Bush Fires Act of 1954 was merged with the FRS under the fire services division of the newly formed Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia (FESA)https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/education/education-and-heritage-centre#:~:text=1999%3A,Fire%20and%20Rescue%20Servicehttps://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-03/Fire-and-Emergency-Services-Authority-WA.pdf, which was established under several pieces of state legislation. FESA was replaced in 2012 with the current Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES).
Other divisions in DFES include the Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service (VFRS)https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/aboutus/operationalinformation/Pages/volunteerfireandrescueservice.aspx, Volunteer Fire and Emergency Services (VFES)https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/aboutus/operationalinformation/Pages/volunteerfireandemergencyservices.aspx, State Emergency Service (SES)https://ses-wa.asn.au/the-ses/ - which was formed as the Civil Defense and Emergency Service in 1961, Volunteer Marina Rescue Service (VMRS)https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/aboutus/operationalinformation/Pages/volunteermarinerescueservices.aspx, and Rural Fire Division (RFD)https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/newsandmedia/rfd/Pages/default.aspx.
== Content ==
Home Fire Safety DVD - Amharic was the first video uploaded to the channel, uploaded on 1 November 2012, the video has 185 views as of 17 March 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CibtYFjAye0, it is about fire safety at home, being a DVD dubbed over in Amharic, a spoken language of Ethiopiahttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Amharic-language. The most popular video on the channel as of 17 March 2024 is DFES Marine Rescue - Volunteer Recruitment (30 Sec), uploaded on 24 February 2021, with over 76,200 views. Most of the channels current recent content involves promoting applicates for DFES and educational videos uploaded in various different languages.
== See also ==
* Western Australia
** Department of Fisheries
* Australia
** Bureau of Meteorology
== References ==
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