 We've made it to the end of March and it's been a very, very busy summer period. You think about heat waves, you think about fires, you think about the challenges of being prepared for what was the season we predicted to be very busy. I'm very pleased today to have with me all of the Chiefs, the Chief Fire Officers, the Chief of SES, to just say thank you to everyone in the sense that it's been a busy time and our involvement with so many people is so important and we value everyone's contribution. It's about those that are on the back of fire trucks. It's about those that are in municipalities working to get all that coordination happening. Those in the agencies that sometimes are beavering away at issues that are so detailed and don't always get the opportunity to be thanked. So we say thank you to everyone that's been involved. Also the Victorian community is a key part of it. People have tuned in to these little videos every week to get the latest update and no matter where you are the fact that we can get information out in a really timely way has been one of those critical things that I think has been valued and I'd like to say thank you for you as a viewer in listening to us tell the story about what the fire season has meant to us and more importantly to you. So I'll hand over the Chiefs and let them say thank you and there's some really important words that we should all take time to dwell on, respect and understand the words we're saying. So thank you. 2013-14 fire season has been very busy. Starting in October with support to New South Wales and then during both January and February significant lightning fires and lots and lots of small fires which were kept small by the termite efforts of the Victorian fire services. On behalf of all of the fire chiefs and the fire services commissioner I just want to add my sincere thanks to everyone who has been involved. At the start of the fire season we reinforced the importance of messaging and protecting the community. We reinforced the need to work as one and in reviewing our efforts over the fire season we can all be jointly very satisfied with the outcome. We've seen some long duration forest fires particularly in Gippsland, we've seen the Hazardwood Mine fire, we've seen support from many states and New Zealand into Victoria this year and I think everyone has performed absolutely magnificently. I just want to in closing this off reinforce the importance of your individual effort. No matter how small your role has been, no matter which agency you have been working for, your effort has made a difference in protecting the community of Victoria, our critical infrastructure and our public assets, you've made a great difference and a great effort. Thank you sincerely, job well done. I'd just like to offer my sincere thanks to everyone in emergency management in Victoria for their outstanding efforts over what has been a very long and difficult bushfire season with the added complexity of a fire in the more open cut at Hazardwood. In particular I'd like to acknowledge the volunteers who have kept up their commitment right throughout the bushfire season, a special thanks to the SES volunteers for the vital role they've played in supporting staging areas, logistics and ground support and also conveying messages to the community and supporting evacuation management. This work is quite important and has been vital in assisting the fire agencies to do their job. Thank you. I just want to say a really big thank you to all the Debbie Park, Victoria and Melbourne Water and Vic Forest staff that have attended fires this year. It has been over 800 fires across the state and we know we started early in the season with fires in the Malley and the Grampians and then of course the work that's gone into the fires in Far East Gippsland plus many other fires across the state where we've either led or supported the other fire agencies. It's been quite a big effort. We've also spent quite a lot of time with people in incident management teams that the more will fire a fire that heavily affected central Gippsland. So it's with a sincere thanks on behalf of all the other agencies and the Fire Services Commissioner that I say a really good effort from everybody from across the state to contribute to helping make Victoria safer. I'd just like to say thank you very much to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, its members, not just firefighters but the broad range of support staff that have assisted during this unprecedented response from the MFB this summer season. We've been in locations that we've never been before. We've been to halls, gap and store and obviously recently down at the Mines at Hazelwood in Morwell and the efforts that have been put in place by our people have been fantastic and what's been really pleasing is when I visited those locations to see a whole range of shirts standing side by side working as one. It's been fantastic. I think it's a sign of more things to come into the future and I'd like to again thank you very much for your efforts this year.