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FRV Firefighter


FRV FIREFIGHTER RECRUITMENT


1. Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) commenced operations in which year?
A. 2015
B. 2018
C. 2022
D. 2020
D. 2020
FRV was established on 1 July 2020 as Victoria's career fire service.
2. FRV was formed by combining the Metropolitan Fire Brigade with
which other group?
A. Victoria Police search and rescue
B. Career firefighters of the Country Fire Authority
C. Ambulance Victoria paramedics
D. Victoria State Emergency Service volunteers
B. Career firefighters of the Country Fire Authority
Career CFA firefighters joined the former MFB to create FRV, while the
CFA continued as a volunteer-based service.


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3. Which number should be dialled in Australia for a life-threatening
emergency?
A. 000
B. 111
C. 911
D. 999
A. 000
Triple Zero (000) is Australia's national emergency number.
4. Which emergency number can a mobile phone use in Australia when
the caller's own network has no coverage?
A. 100
B. 999
C. 112
D. 911
C. 112
112 connects to emergency services through any available network.
5. Which Victorian agency is primarily volunteer-based and responds
mainly to fires outside the fire districts?
A. Victoria Police
B. Ambulance Victoria
C. Fire Rescue Victoria
D. Country Fire Authority
D. Country Fire Authority
The CFA relies largely on volunteers and covers most rural and outer-
suburban areas.




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6. Which agency is the primary responder to storm and flood damage in
Victoria?
A. Victoria State Emergency Service
B. Parks Victoria
C. Ambulance Victoria
D. Country Fire Authority
A. Victoria State Emergency Service
VICSES leads the response to storms, floods and similar events.
7. Which agency normally acts as control agency for a structure fire
inside a fire district?
A. Victoria Police
B. Ambulance Victoria
C. Victoria State Emergency Service
D. Fire Rescue Victoria
D. Fire Rescue Victoria
FRV is responsible for fire suppression and rescue within its fire districts.
8. Which is a typical FRV response?
A. Arrest and detention of offenders
B. Structure fires, road crash rescue and hazardous materials incidents
C. Management of state water storage dams
D. Ambulance transport of patients to hospital
B. Structure fires, road crash rescue and hazardous materials
incidents
FRV crews attend fires, rescues and hazmat incidents.




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9. FRV mainly serves which type of area?
A. Airports and ports only
B. Remote farmland across the state
C. Metropolitan Melbourne and major regional centres
D. Only Melbourne's central business district
C. Metropolitan Melbourne and major regional centres
FRV operates in designated fire districts, which cover metropolitan
Melbourne and major regional centres.
10. The Black Saturday bushfires occurred on which date?
A. 16 February 1983
B. 13 January 1939
C. 7 February 2009
D. 2 January 2020
C. 7 February 2009
Black Saturday took place on 7 February 2009 and remains Australia's
worst bushfire disaster.
11. The Ash Wednesday bushfires occurred in which year?
A. 1967
B. 2009
C. 1939
D. 1983
D. 1983
Ash Wednesday was 16 February 1983 and affected Victoria and South
Australia.




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