Bagdad Fire Brigade

17/10/2026

🚒 Tasmania Fire Service - Southern Midlands District - Paul Horne Memorial 4X4 Competition 2026 🏆

The annual competition took place on Sunday 4th October and this year was held within the Kempton and Bagdad areas. It is a great event now held in the naming memory of our comrade Paul who was a highly valued TFS member and mate who had a lot to do with the original organising and putting together the 4X4 Competition 🩵

It was a fantastic day bringing brigades from around the district together to practise fundamental firefighting skills, test their knowledge, work as a team and, most importantly, have some fun along the way! 🚒👏

Results from the competition are:

🥇 1st Place – Bagdad 5.1 Light Tanker
🥈 2nd Place – New Norfolk 5.1
🏅 3rd Place – Bagdad 4.1 Medium Tanker

A big congratulations to our Bagdad 5.1 team coming 1st, the 4X4 comp originally started in Bagdad so it’s lovely to be able to bring the trophy back home this year 🏆

There was also a great result in the “Encouragement Award”, with Bagdad 4.1 tying for first place alongside Bushy Park 5.1! 👏🏻 This award recognises crews that demonstrate excellent teamwork, with experienced members supporting and mentoring newer firefighters. It’s a great reflection of what volunteering is all about learning from one another, working together and helping everyone become better firefighters.

The “Inter-District” award for this year was presented to Bridgewater Brigade, so congratulations and well done to this team 👏🏻

There was also a newly introduced award, the “Richie Lang” award in memory of Richard Lang who was a much loved member of the Kempton Brigade 🚒 This award in his memory and legacy is for the “Most tenacious participant” on the day of the competition and in its first year this award was presented to Tracy Rose from Bothwell Fire Brigade 👏🏻

A massive congratulations to all the crews who took part, and a big thank you to Kempton Fire Brigade and everyone involved from the organisers, to the members who volunteered to be stand judges, the awesome and hardworking team in the “radio room” communicating with crews all day, the people who helped in between plus helpers on the BBQ for food after the event and also preparing sandwiches for lunch, every one of you help make it such a successful and great day so well done 👏🏻

A special thank you also goes out to Paul’s dear family for always coming along to show support and allowing us to name the event in his honour ❤️

Please enjoy photos taken on the day by Larissa Hill-Moore who is a member of our Bagdad Brigade, along with photos also from Trevor Moore and Anita McKinlay also members of our Bagdad Brigade. We thank our camera crew of Larissa, Janelle and Trevor for their efforts on documenting the day and there will also be a video of the event coming shortly, so stay tuned! 😊📷🚒

Tasmania Fire Service

12/10/2026

We are fundraising to send our junior & seniors to the State Fire Comps this year! We have some amazing prizes and we would love your support 🎟️ a huge thank you to the businesses who have donated prizes to our raffle, we will do a few shout outs over the coming weeks!

03/10/2026

🚒🚒🚒 Don't be alarmed if you're in the Kempton, Dysart, Huntington Tier and Bagdad area today (Sunday, 4 October) and see an increased number of Tasmania Fire Service vehicles in the area.

The annual Paul Horne Memorial Competition is taking place from 9am until 4pm.

03/10/2026

🚒TODAY🚒

🚨 Tasmania Fire Service 🚒 - Southern Midlands District - Paul Horne Memorial 4X4 Competition 2026 🏆

Hello to our Bagdad and Kempton communities! 👋🏻

We’d like to let our local communities know that you may notice additional fire trucks throughout the Kempton and Bagdad areas this Sunday, 4 October. 🚒

The annual Paul Horne Memorial 4X4 Competition is taking place, bringing together brigades from across the Southern Midlands, along with some special guest brigades from outside the region, for a day of friendly competition, training and camaraderie. 👩🏻‍🚒👨🏽‍🚒

The competition will commence at Kempton Fire Station at approximately 8:30am and conclude at Bagdad Fire Station at approximately 4:30pm. Throughout the day, participating crews and vehicles will travel between a number of locations within the Kempton and Bagdad areas.

So, if you see a few more fire trucks than usual, there’s no cause for alarm — it’s all part of the competition! 😊🚒

📷🚁 A little note for our community:
We’ll also have a member of the Bagdad Brigade photographing the event, including some aerial photography using a drone. You may therefore see or hear a drone operating in areas where the competition is taking place.

A friendly reminder that the competition is a volunteer training event and is by invitation only. While we absolutely encourage our community to enjoy seeing the crews and vehicles throughout the day, the event itself is not open to the general public, and we ask that members of the community please do not attend the fire stations or competition locations.

This helps us ensure the event can run safely and smoothly for our volunteers and participants. ❤️

If you have any questions or concerns about the event, please contact Bagdad Fire Brigade Chief, Tristan Smith, via email at; [email protected]

Thank you to our wonderful Bagdad and Kempton communities for your support and understanding. We hope you enjoy seeing our crews out and about! 😊🚒🔥🏆

30/09/2026

🚨 Tasmania Fire Service 🚒 - Southern Midlands District - Paul Horne Memorial 4X4 Competition 2026 🏆

Hello to our Bagdad and Kempton communities! 👋🏻

We’d like to let our local communities know that you may notice additional fire trucks throughout the Kempton and Bagdad areas this Sunday, 4 October. 🚒

The annual Paul Horne Memorial 4X4 Competition is taking place, bringing together brigades from across the Southern Midlands, along with some special guest brigades from outside the region, for a day of friendly competition, training and camaraderie. 👩🏻‍🚒👨🏽‍🚒

The competition will commence at Kempton Fire Station at approximately 8:30am and conclude at Bagdad Fire Station at approximately 4:30pm. Throughout the day, participating crews and vehicles will travel between a number of locations within the Kempton and Bagdad areas.

So, if you see a few more fire trucks than usual, there’s no cause for alarm — it’s all part of the competition! 😊🚒

📷🚁 A little note for our community:
We’ll also have a member of the Bagdad Brigade photographing the event, including some aerial photography using a drone. You may therefore see or hear a drone operating in areas where the competition is taking place.

A friendly reminder that the competition is a volunteer training event and is by invitation only. While we absolutely encourage our community to enjoy seeing the crews and vehicles throughout the day, the event itself is not open to the general public, and we ask that members of the community please do not attend the fire stations or competition locations.

This helps us ensure the event can run safely and smoothly for our volunteers and participants. ❤️

If you have any questions or concerns about the event, please contact Bagdad Fire Brigade Chief, Tristan Smith, via email at; [email protected]

Thank you to our wonderful Bagdad and Kempton communities for your support and understanding. We hope you enjoy seeing our crews out and about! 😊🚒🔥🏆

07/09/2026

🚨 Congratulations to our Brigade Elected Officers 🎉

On Wednesday 12 August 2026 we held our AGM and Brigade position elections. These elections occur every 5 years. A big congratulations to our new Brigade Officers: Tristan Smith as Chief, Matthew Cornwall as Second Officer, Myles Davies as Third Officer and Sam Kenner as Fourth Officer. These new elected Officers will hold their positions for the next 5 years, we wish them all the best in their new roles to help continue to serve and protect our valuable community together.

We want to pass on a special thanks and our appreciation to John Holloway and Andrew Geard for taking the time out of their night to be present for our elections.

We wish to also thank our previous Chief, Craig Harback, for his service, along with our outgoing Officers, Greg Clifton and Breeanna Bisset, for their time, effort and dedication to the Brigade in their Officer roles.

We also wish to congratulate the following members on their internal Admin positions within the Brigade: Greg Clifton as Chair, Larissa Hill-Moore as Secretary, Ben Roberts as Treasurer and Anita McKinlay as Social Committee.

There will also be two members elected into “Leading Firefighter” positions which are yet to be announced, so watch this space!

A big congratulations to all members on their positions 👏🏻 We also snapped an updated Brigade photo on the same night, there is quite a few of us now! Here are the many faces in the Brigade (minus a few which unfortunately couldn’t be with us on the night) that help to serve and protect in your Community ❤️🫱🏻‍🫲🏽🚒 🔥

06/09/2026

🚒 Training Exercise Pontville Area 🚒

If you see an increased presence of fire trucks and personnel in the Pontville area tonight (Monday 7th September between 7PM-9:30PM) don't be alarmed.

Local brigades will be conducting a multi brigade training exercise to help us better protect our communities and test our response capabilities.

05/09/2026

Bagdad Fire Brigade are aware and have attended this incident at the Dysart Waste Transfer Station. This fire is contained but will continue to burn overnight which will produce smoke. The Southern Midlands Council will attend in the morning to assess the situation.

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03/09/2026

Is this something you would like to do.
Broadmarsh Fire Brigade is looking for new members.
We will be holding an open day at the station in October on a date to be confirmed.
Come along and talk to members to find out what is involved and look over the station and trucks.
All welcome.

11/08/2026