(Images) On Thursday 11th Feb 2010 @ 9.15am the Brigade received a pager call (Via 000) for a structure fire on Geelong-Portarlington Road. Crews from Portarlington and Drysdale arrived to find the top level of a two story house well alight.

The fire took approximately 35 minutes to get under control with a combined 15 firefighters from Portarlington and Drysdale on scene.

2 crews using Breathing Apparatus, one from Portarlington and one from Drysdale, performed an interior attack while a crews on a 64mm branch provided asset protection and initial fire attack.

Appliances on scene were:
Portarlington Pumper
Portarlington Tanker
Portarlington Car
Drysdale Pumper
Corio BA Van (Refilled Expired BA Cylinders)
Regional Duty Officer 7 (Fire Investigation)

(Images) On Saturday the 7^th of February 2009 the state faced extreme fire danger conditions that had never been seen before in the history of the CFA. All members of the CFA family spent the morning hoping that nothing would break out, however in the hours after 1300 all hell broke loose in the state of Victoria which lead to over 170 deaths and over 2000 properties being destroyed. For the next month fire fighters and emergency services from across Australia came to the aid of the Victorian community to offer support to the areas affected.

The Portarlington CFA was not called to assist on the 7^th as it was tasked along with other brigades in the area with protecting the Bellarine Peninsula as resources were stretched to the limits, however over the following month the brigade’s forward command vehicle was called away on a number of occasions to the east of Victoria and the brigades new tanker was called away to the King Lake Complex for 3 weeks to assist along with a large amount of members who volunteered their time doing 11 combined three day stints on the fire line over the course of the fire.

At 18:00 the Portarlington fire brigade was called to its first grass fire for the 2008/2009 fire season. The fire was accidentally started by the hot exhaust of a ride on lawn mower as a resident was preparing their block before the hot summer months. The surprising thing about this fire is that it was located in the urban area of Portarlington. This shows that it is not just rural areas that can be affected by grass and scrub fires and that all property owners should consider cleaning up long grass and burnable rubbish around their properties before the fire season sets in.

On early Friday morning the Portarlington CFA and Drysdale CFA were called to a undefined fire at 2:00am. The further information given was that it was believed that a shed adjoining 2 houses was well alight with one car on LPG gas inside. On arrival the officer in charge of the fire fight, Leiut. S. Scott's main aim was to protect the adjoining premises with the limited crew available at the early stages of the fire then to move onto the main seat of the fire when more resources were available. In all 5 appliances from both the Portarlington and Drysdale fire brigades and 16 fire fighters spent the early morning extinguishing the blaze.