Maidstone resident Guy McCrorie has been awarded an Australian Fire Service Medal for more than 35 years of service to fire services within the state’s most diverse communities.
He joined the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) in April 1986, was promoted to station officer in 1991, became a senior station officer in 2003 and started in his current role as community safety and emergency management commander in 2010.
With a number of years of services in the emergency management sector, Mr McCrorie has also worked as an incident controller at large structural fires and hazmat incidents, attended major campaign fires as an operational firefighter and held senior positions in level three incident control centres.
Well known for his approach to develop and distribute home-based fire safety messaging throughout multicultural communities, leaders and other people of influence within these communities, a number of other emergency service agencies have emulated his approach in implementing similar approaches across Melbourne’s growing multicultural communities.
Mr McCrorie has also been a representative for the State Prison Fire and Emergency Management Committee and worked with a number of government departments and organisations to ensure they are prepared for an emergency event or implement preventative measures, such as tamper-proof sprinklers in juvenile detention centres.
