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FFT invited to attend the National Flood Forum on 6 October 2011
5 Sep 2011
On Friday 11 February 2011 the Ministerial Council for Police and Emergency Management – Emergency Management (MCPEM-EM) held an extraordinary meeting in Canberra. The Attorney-General and State, Territory and New Zealand emergency management Ministers, along with the Australian Local Government Association, discussed the priorities for building the nation’s resilience, in light of the unprecedented number, severity and scale of natural disaster events over summer.
MCPEM-EM agreed to task the National Emergency Management Committee (NEMC) to convene a National Flood Forum to consider new and emerging technologies that could be harnessed to assist with preparedness, response and recovery to natural disasters, with an initial focus on floods.
This forum will be held in Brisbane on Thursday 6th October. On the first day of this 2-day forum industry will present new and emerging technologies that could be of interest to local, state and federal government in the mitigation of floods.
FFT will present the HYTRANS mobile High Volume Pump system and their Flood Pumps (15,000L/min) and Flood Module (45,000L/min). The UK Fire & Rescue Services deployed 40 of their 50 HYTRANS systems during the Summer 2007 floods.