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(From Canberra Times)

ACT and NSW volunteer bushfire brigades will be able to use each others' radio frequencies under a new deal being brokered by authorities in each jurisdiction.

They are also pursuing new laws which will give volunteer firefighters in the ACT and NSW the legal protection to fight a fire outside their border first if they are the closest to it.

NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Phil Koperberg met ACT Emergency Services Commissioner Peter Dunn in Canberra yesterday.

A Emergency Services Bureau spokesman said it was part of the ongoing consultation the ESB was conducting with key stakeholders about the legislation which will create a new emergency services authority by July 1.

Mr Koperberg said the meeting was constructive and frank.

He said it looked at ensuring that laws on each side of the border were compatible, especially relating to controls over development in bushfire- ...

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