Next Sunday, March 4 is Clean Up Australia Day – a day when communities volunteer to clean up their local parks, bushland, waterways and streets. 

Now in its twenty-second year, Narromine Fire Station Deputy Captain Peter Treseder said Clean Up Australia Day in Narromine has been a popular community event and is something the Fire Brigade have participated in since the beginning.

“This year there was no one down to coordinate it, so we thought we would step in and be the coordinator for the event this year,” he said. 

Deputy Captain Treseder encouraged that taking part in the national event is an important community service, which shows pride in the town.

Station Commander for the Fire & Rescue NSW at Narromine Fire Station, Ewen Jones said that Clean Up Australia Day is an important event because “we only have one environment, and it is up to us to make sure it is kept clean, and free of litter to hopefully make it last forever”.

This year to take part in Narromine’s Clean Up Australia Day, visit the Narromine Fire Station on March 4, to sign on and be allocated a registered site. 

Volunteers will be provided with gloves, rubbish bags, sharp containers and vests when they sign on at Narromine Fire Station. 

Deputy Captain Treseder said there will be someone at the station from 6 am through to 12 noon to help sign on volunteers and provide information.

“Most people like to get out there early before it gets too hot.”

Deputy Captain Treseder said once bags are full, they can be left on the side of the road for the Narromine Shire to collect. 

The Narromine Fire Brigade invites everyone along to participate in the day to help make the community a cleaner and better place. 

Clean Up Australia Day began in 1989 when Sydney man, Ian Kiernan, got a group of people together to clean up Sydney Harbour. 

The idea received an enormous public response, with almost 300,000 volunteers participating in the first official Clean Up Australia Day in 1990.