The visit tops off a busy winter for the squad in preparing itself for the coming water activity period. 

Anyone wanting to find out more about the VRA, and in particular what goes on at Lake Burrendong, is most welcome to call in at our headquarters this Sunday morning. 

Squad members have been continuously on the water over the winter months building up their skills in the John Francis rescue vessel.  

Earlier in the year, the squad also hosted a basic first aid course out at the lake.  

Members of the Squad are required to be First Aid qualified as part of their commitment to joining and then remaining in the Squad.

 No less than 14 members of the Squad attended the course either to get their initial First Aid certificate or to update skills from previous training they had attended.  

Park staff from Burrendong and Mookerewa also took the opportunity to attend the course as did some of the partners of squad members and park staff.

 Our paramedic trainers, Tony Hare from Dubbo and Leah Wells, who had just transferred from Dubbo to work in the Wellington ambulance service, said that the class of 22 was probably the biggest number they had taught in one group.

 With that number of newly-qualified first aiders in the Mumbil/Stuart Town area, you can at the least feel somewhat safer whilst enjoying everything the lake has to offer knowing that there are such committed people around.