IFE Information Series #2

On 1 December, Fire and Emergency hosted the second iteration of the Institution of Fire Engineers' Information Series.

The above presentation featured Commander Ian Beswicke, Commander Mark Collins and Specialist Risk and Fire Safety Manager Matt Allen from Victoria’s Country Fire Authority.

The trio will present on the response to a fire that occurred at the site of the Victorian Big Battery on 30 July 2021. Whilst the fire was relatively small in size – destroying two Tesla Megapack units and damaging two others of the 212 megapacks on the site – it attracted national and international attention as it was the first of its kind in the world. 

Although a multi-agency response contained the fire and protected exposures allowing the two megapacks to burn out there were a number of complexities for the Incident Management Team to work through, during both the operational firefighting phase and the complex multi-agency investigation process that followed.