 G'day I'm Euron Ferguson, CFA Chief Officer. Happy Autumn. It's the 2nd of March and I'm here at the Traug and Incident Control Centre. I've just been down on a visit to the staging area, been down the mine. I visit the mine every couple of days just to assess from the ground how our firefighting techniques are going and assess performance. And also to meet with the incident patroller and the regional controller. A couple of things I just want to say at the outset and the first is that what's been occurring over the last six or seven weeks and it's really exemplified by this Hazelwood Mine fire has been that we've moved into a different level of interagency cooperation. Everywhere I go around the Hazelwood Mine, you see SES, you see MFB, CFA, Victoria Police, Deppie Parks, Victoria, all operating as one integrated team and coming up to the various members who I speak to, they're all really happy to be working together. I think we've set a new benchmark. So well done on that. The other thing about this fire at Hazelwood, we've called on resources from a number of interstate fire services, Tasmania Fire Service, ACT, Airport Rescue Firefighters, ADF Firefighters, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service. As I speak we still have 10 CFA fire stations which are being crewed by New South Wales Fire Rescue Service and that allows us to release CFA staff into the mine fire. The mine fire, this is week three today, Sunday and I've just come from public meeting and one of the things I wanted to reinforce to the community of Moorland and the Lutre Valley is that we will put this fire out. There's absolutely no doubt that we have the means to put this fire out but we do need to have the assistance of the weather. We know that we sometimes regress when there's strong winds and high temperatures. So as we record this next Tuesday, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning are going to be tough but we are making exceptionally good progress. We have a well thought through method of firefighting using the airport fire tenders and traditional pumpers to cool the area down. We then have aerial pumpers with and without compressed air foam units that lay sloppy and then fluffy foam and then that's followed up by ground crews and the new heavy concept tankers. So we've got a really well proven method of firefighting and then what we do is we transition to the use of mechanical excavators and so on. We are also working very closely with the owner of the mine, GDF Sewers and their principal contractor RTL. They're providing a range of plant including cranes that they erect monitors on and they're very similar in effect to a Teleburn. We're also seeing 30,000 litre industrial tankers being used by the industry to quench those little hot spots and then dig them out. So it's a really concerted and cooperative effort. The last 10 days have seen a concerted effort on what we call the northern batters at the northern side of the mine. Over 50% of that is now extinguished and a substantial part of that which is not extinguished is very very cool. Over the next week or so there'll be a shift of resources onto the southeastern batters. We in adopting a prioritisation of the batters are very much guided by the amount of smoke which is coming off the fire and we're trying to minimise the amount of smoke which is blowing into particularly more south and other parts of the Latre Valley. We will have some challenges in the next couple of weeks. Next Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday night, Wednesday will present us some challenges. I just want to commend all of the people who are involved in this long-running firefight at the regional command, incident control and also at the staging area. Particularly for those crews who are on the fire ground, it's not an easy environment. It's hot, it's dirty, it's smelly. The atmosphere is very smoky. We've got a range of health monitoring systems which are very very important in ensuring that people aren't exposed to undue concentrations of carbon monoxide and smoke in particulates. Those procedures are very important. We're constantly reviewing them, having them peer reviewed. Could I say that we're also working very closely with the unions and association. The UFU have been exceptional in the way in which they've drawn matters to our attention first and allowed us time to implement a solution and also the VFBV have been very good in highlighting where they have concerns and allowing us time to try and resolve those. So great effort so far, very hectic three weeks. Notwithstanding the fact that three weeks ago we also had significant bushfires all over the state and that came on from the tail end of the fires we had in the Grampians and also those fires in Far East Kippsland some of which would have been burning now for about seven weeks. Everyone's getting tired, fatigue is a major issue. I close this with a plea to continue to think firstly about the safety of yourselves and your crew members and about the safety of the community. Think carefully about managing your fatigue levels. When it's time to knock off, knock off and go home. Don't linger around. Keep observing what the risks are, talking it up with your crew members and come home safe.