By Dongyun Kwon
Badger Creek CFA had a special open day on Sunday 17 March.
The brigade opened its station and hosted two events for community members, one was the defibrillator information session and the other was the bushfire information session.
It recently installed a defibrillator at the front of the station for community use thanks to funding from Healesville Bendigo Bank.
Badger Creek CFA captain Mike Thomas said some part of the funding was a component of educating people about the use of the defibrillator and that was the reason why the brigade decided to host a special event.
“The opportunity was given for people to come along on Sunday morning to see what the defibrillator was all about and where its location was,” he said.
“The other part was about bushfire awareness, things about how we can get our properties prepared in the case of bushfires.
“It’s always a good time to think about preparing our properties and ourselves for bushfires so that we can build resiliency to the community.”
The event started at 11am and finished at 1pm with about 15 people from the community coming along.
John Bolton from District 13 CFA came to the event and held the bushfire information session.
“He’s a specialist and trained. He has got all the up-to-date information about bushfires,” Mr Thomas said.
“We’d like to see our community become resilient and this was our way of doing that.”
