New firefighters graduate

Recently graduated, the 19 officers will join the ranks of 740 colleaguies at stations across Australia. (Airservices)

Airservices Australia has graduated 19 new rescue and firefighters at the organisation’s Melbourne training centre.

Having completed their 11-week course the graduates will join 740 existing firefighters across the service, and will be deployed to stations at Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Sydney, Rockhampton, Adelaide and Darwin.