The Innovation Platform becomes Murphys Creek 41

The vehicle was kindly donated to the RFBAQ by MercedesBenz Australia and was a test bed for the latest in crew safety ideas and inventions to make the dangerous art of firefighting safer for the firefighters.

 

A flow-on benefit of this donation by the RFBAQ and QuikCorp is that the former Murphys Creek 41 will be cascaded to Pinelands RFB which currently is one of the 60% of Rural Fire Brigade in Queensland that do not have a fire truck. Pinelands brigade is located on the New England Highway between Crows Nest and Cooyar.

 

The RFBAQ would again sincerely like to thank Mercedes-Benz Australia for donating the cab chassis and to the Dowling Family Foundation who made a very generous donation to the RFBAQ to help cover the cost of equipment, fit-out, registration and insurance.

 

The RFBAQ / Quikcorp Innovation Platform team would also like to thank the sponsors who have whole-heartedly backed this process from inception and who are all invested in trying to give firefighters a safer vehicle to work from and retreat to.

 

We hope that this vehicle serves the local community well for the next 20 years.

 

This is the 11^th fire truck that the RFBAQ has given to Rural Fire Brigades in Queensland over the last 2 years.